Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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Stephen VI

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113th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 896 - 897. Stephen is chiefly remembered in connexion with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus, his last predecessor but one. Doubtless ...

120th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 911 - 913. Not much is certain or recorded about Anastasius III, however a Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognised as his father, although other ...

Romanus

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114th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 897 - 897. He was elected to succeed the murdered Pope Stephen VI and was deposed a few months later by one of the factions, which then governed Rome. ...

Boniface VI

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112th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 896 - 896. He was elected Pope in April 896 as a result of riots soon after the death of Pope Formosus. Prior to his reign, he had twice incurred a ...

Leo V

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118th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 903 - 903. Leo was Pope for some thirty days in 903 after the death of Pope Benedict IV (900–903). He was dethroned by antipope Christopher (903–904), ...

Theodore II

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115th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 897 - 897. He was pope for twenty days during December 897 before he died. He reinstated the clerics who had been forced from office by Pope Stephen VI, ...

Sergius III

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119th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 904 - 911. Sergius III was possibly the only pope known to have ordered the murder of another pope and the only pope to have fathered an illegitimate ...