DEUSDEDIT, SAINT,

also called Deusdedit I, or Adeodatus I born , Rome died Nov. 8, 618, Rome; feast day November 8 pope from 615 to 618. His pontificate is chiefly noteworthy for an unsuccessful resumption of the Byzantine war against the Lombards in Italy and for a reversal of the policy of popes Gregory I and Boniface IV, who favoured monks over the secular clergy.