Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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105th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 858 - 867. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy ...

Adrian II

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106th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 867 - 872. Like his predecessor Nicholas I, Adrian was forced to submit in temporal affairs to the interference of the emperor Louis II, who placed him ...

Marinus I

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108th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 882 - 884. Among his first acts as pope were the restitution of Formosus as Cardinal Bishop of Portus and the anathematizing of Photius. Due to his ...

Benedict III

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104th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 855 - 858. Little is known of Benedict's life before his papacy. He was educated and lived in Rome and was cardinal priest of the church of San Callisto ...

Stephn V

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110th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 885 - 891. Stephen was called upon to face a famine caused by a drought and by locusts, and as the papal treasury was empty he had to fall back on his ...

John VIII

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107th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 872 - 882. He is often considered one of the ablest pontiffs of the ninth century and the last bright spot on the papacy until Leo IX ascended the papal ...

Formosus

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111th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 891 - 896. Posthumously ritually executed following the Cadaver Synod. The Cadaver Synod is remembered as one of the most bizarre episodes in the ...