Family and Education
He was a nephew of Bishop Arsenius of Orte, who executed important commissions as Papal legate.
Anastasius learned the Greek language from Eastern Roman monks and obtained an unusual education for his era, such that he appears to be the most learned ecclesiastic of Rome in the barbaric period of the 9th century.
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