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Pope Stephen VI (Latin: Stephanus VI; died August 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 22 May 896 to his death. He is best known for instigating the Cadaver Synod , which ultimately led to his downfall and death.
Pope-elect Stephen (died 25 March 752) was a Roman priest selected in March 752 to succeed Pope Zachary. ... Election to the Papacy. In 745, ...
The land given to pope Stephen in 756, in the so-called Donation of Pepin, made the papacy a temporal power and for the first time created an incentive for secular leaders to interfere with papal succession.
Pope Adrian I (772–795) and Pope Leo III (795–816) were elected under the rules of Stephen III, but the latter was forced from Rome and sought the aid of Charlemagne. [9] Under the rule of Adrian I, Charlemagne conquered Pavia, ending the Lombard kingdom "and the Papacy was forever delivered from its persistent and hereditary foe."
The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment. He accused Formosus of perjury, of having acceded to the papacy illegally, and illegally presiding over more than one diocese at the same time. [2] At the end of ...
Pope Stephen III (Latin: Stephanus III; 720 – 24 January 772) [1] was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 7 August 768 to his death. Stephen was a Benedictine monk who worked in the Lateran Palace during the reign of Pope Zachary .
Pope Stephen IV (Latin: Stephanus IV; died January 817) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from June 816 to his death. [1] Stephen belonged to a noble Roman family. In October 816, he crowned Louis the Pious as emperor at Reims , and persuaded him to release some Roman political prisoners he held in custody.
The Bad Popes is a 1969 book by E. R. Chamberlin that documents the lives of eight of the most controversial popes (papal years in parentheses): . Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.