Pope Honorius was in point of fact condemned as a heretic. There is an identical discussion underway on this on another thread
Pope Excommunicated?
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When the Church declares someone to be anathema
after their death, this tells us that the person in question never renounced their heresy, never repented of it, and therefore died in a state of separation from God, as an apostate, outside of the Church and her graces.
Such was the unfortunate Pope Honorius. Whatever words were said at his grave, the Church subsequently and with one voice infallibly declared him anathema, separated from God–a sentence which the entire Episcopate at an Ecumenical Council (ratified as infallible by the Pope), the entire Priesthood, and all the faithful, affirmed, do affirm, and
must affirm.