Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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, ...

John IX

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116th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 898 -900. John held several synods in Rome in an attempt to diminish the violence of faction in Rome. John sanctioned the consecration of a metropolitan ...

Benedict IV

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117th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 900 - 903. Benedict IV upheld the ordinances of Pope Formosus, whose rotting corpse had been exhumed by Pope Stephen VI and put on trial in the Cadaver ...