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	STEPHEN - LoveToKnow Article on STEPHEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		STEPHEN III., pope from the 7th of August 768 to the 3rd of February 772, was a native of Sicily, and, having come to iome during the pontificate of Gregory III., gradually rose to ligh office in the service of successive popes.
		Stephen hastened against the rebels, bearing before him the banner of St Martin of Tours, whom he now chose to be his patron saint, and routed the rebels at Veszprem (998), a victory from which the foundation of the Hungarian monarchy must be dated, for Stephen assumed the royal title immediately afterwards.
		Stephen was a keen and circumspect politician, and for his future security contracted, during his father's lifetime, a double1 matrimonial alliance with the Neapolitan princes of the House of Anjou, the chief partisans of the pope.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STEPHEN.htm (2066 words)

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		Afonso VI of Portugal Afonso VI (House of Braganza.
		Haakon VI of Norway 'Haakon VI Magnusson'\ (appr.
		Louis VI the Roman Louis VI the Roman (Bavaria and from 1351 to 1365 margrave and Brandenburg.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/vi.html (1537 words)

	STEPHEN (POPES) - LoveToKnow Article on STEPHEN (POPES) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stephen, the Hellenist, views it idealistically and with the spiritual freedom of the prophets and of Jesus Himself.
		As to the authenticity of Stephen's speech, it is generally admitted to be accurate in substance, if not in the words that he uttered.
		Stephen's actual martyrdom is described as tumultuary in character, though the legal forms of stoning for blasphemy were observed (58).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STEPHEN_POPES_.htm (2659 words)

	Pope Stephen VII
		Stephen VII, was Pope from May 896 to July or August 897.
		Stephen is remembered in connection with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus, his last predecessor but one, whose rotting corpse he exhumed and put on trial in the Cadaver Synod (synod horrenda) in January 897.
		There is a problem in numbering the Popes Stephen -- see Pope Stephen II for the explanation.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pope_Stephen_VII.html (166 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pope Stephen VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church.
		John X, pope from 914 to 928, was deacon at Bologna when he attracted the attention of Theodora, the wife of Theophylact, the most powerful noble in Rome, through whose influence he was elevated first to the see of Bologna and then to the archbishopric of Ravenna.
		Stephen II was elected pope in March of 752.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pope-Stephen-VIII (551 words)

	Pope Theodore II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was ordained as a priest by Pope Stephen VI; also his brother Theotius was a bishop.
		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 VII, recognizing the validity of the ordinations of Pope Formosus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Theodore_II (159 words)

	CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith
		Pope Formosus, a bishop when elected to the papacy, was an early exception to this tradition (891-96) and a source of controversy.
		Urban VI, Archbishop of Bari, Italy, succeeded Gregory in 1378.
		Pope John XII (955-64) was deposed by a Roman council on December 4, 963 and succeeded by Leo VIII (963-65).
	www.cuf.org /faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=202 (2225 words)

	Pope Stephen VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen VI, pope (885-891), succeeded Pope Adrian III, and was in turn succeeded by Pope Formosus.
		In his dealings with Constantinople in the matter of Photius, as also in his relations with the young Slavonic church, he pursued the policy of Pope Nicholas I.
		This biography of a Pope is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Stephen_VI (136 words)

	Pope Stephen VIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like his predecessor, Leo VI, he was elected while Pope John X was still alive and in prison.
		Stephen's reign was brief and few records remain.
		There is a problem numbering the popes Stephen - see Stephen II for the explanation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Stephen_VIII (165 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Some popes are not good definers of Catholicism... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus, Pope John II (533-35) yielded to pressure for the Byzantine emperor to contradict the teaching of a previous pope, Hormisdas (514-23), on a matter of central doctrinal importance: the tow nature of Jesus Christ.
		And then, of course, there is the infamous case of Pope Formosus (891-96) whose body was dug up from the grave, vested in potential robes, put on trial by Pope Stephen VI (896-97), degraded and multilated and then thrown into the Tiber River.
		Stephen himself would late be deposed, stripped of his papal insignia, imprisoned and strangled to death.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19136145&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (950 words)

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		Pope John XXII codemned poor humble Franciscan monks to be burned at the stake for the "heresy" of saying that Jesus and his apostles lived in poverty.
		Pope John XXIII was deposed in 1415 for piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest.
		Pope Stephen VIII was so horribly mutilated, his nose, lips, and ears cut off, that he never showed his 'face' in public again.
	www.yumasun.com /cgi-bin/ikonboard/printpage.cgi?forum=1&topic=305 (163 words)

	The Pope Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the most gruesome events in papal history, held in January 897 by Pope Stephen VI (VII) during which the corpse of Pope Formosus (891-896) was exhumed and placed on trial.
		Pope John IX (898-900) declared the actions of the cadaver synod annulled.
		Stephen, meanwhile, had fallen from power was stripped of his office and strangled while in prison.
	media.isnet.org /kristen/Ensiklopedia/CadaverSynod.html (409 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Ninth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pope St. Nicholas I sent two legates to hear and report the findings in the case of Photius, who was urged to resign his usurped See.
		Pope Adrian II sent Bishop Donatus of Ostia; Stephen, Bishop of Nepi; and the Deacon, Marinus as Papal legates to the Eighth General Council of the Church.
		POPE STEPHEN VI Pope Stephen VI was made Cardinal-Priest of the Four-Crowned Martyrs by Pope Marinug I. He was a pious Saintly man, also practical.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/9cent.html (2873 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Medieval papal shenanigans remind us how lucky ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As bishop of Porto, Italy, he was a consecrator of Pope Stephen V in 885.
		Formosus was found guilty of perjury, of having coveted the papal throne and of having violated the canons of the church that forbade the transfer of bishops from one diocese to another.
		After all, Popes Stephen VI and Sergius III were as much "successors of Peter" as Pope John Paul II is.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15921815&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (903 words)

	Pope Innocent VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Innocent VI, Stephen Aubert, pope at Avignon from 1352 to 1362, the successor of Clement VI, was a native of the diocese of Limoges, and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, became bishop successively of Noyon and of Clermont.
		In 1342 he was raised to the dignity of cardinal.
		On the death of Clement VI, after the cardinals had each bound himself by a solemn agreement as to a particular line of policy should he be elected, Aubert was chosen (December 18, 1352); one of the first acts of his pontificate was to declare the paction to have been illegal and null.
	www.termsdefined.net /po/pope-innocent-vi.html (430 words)

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		Pope John XXIII, a historian by training, was fond of saying that history is the great teacher of life.
		We think that because the popes of our lifetimes - from Pius XI to John Paul II - were respected and even revered figures, that all or at least the overwhelming majority of popes enjoyed similarly positive pubic images.
		After all, Popes Stephen VI and Sergius III were as much "successors of Peter" as Pope John Paul II is. Footnote: There has never been a Pope Formosus II.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/formosus.html (822 words)

	Pope Stephen VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The circumstances of his election are unclear, but he was sponsored by one of the powerful Roman families, the house of Spoleto, that contested the papacy at the time.
		Stephen is largely remembered in connection with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus, his last predecessor but one.
		Doubtless under pressure from the Spoleto contingent, the rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial, in the so-called Cadaver Synod (synod horrenda), in January 897.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pope_stephen_vii (289 words)

	Infamous Moment of Roman Catholic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pope Formosus was born around 816, probably in Rome.
		The papal vestments were torn from his body, the three fingers from his right hand which the pope had used in consecrations were cut off and the corpse was then thrown into the Tiber.
		Following the death of Stephen the body was reinterred in St. Peter's.
	home.earthlink.net /~tulley2/pope.htm (479 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Stephen (VI) VII
		Stephen was a Roman, and the son of John, a priest.
		Whether induced by evil passion or perhaps, more probably, compelled by the Emperor Lambert and his mother Ageltruda, he caused the body of Formosus to be exhumed, and in January, 897, to be placed before an unwilling synod of the Roman clergy.
		Before he was put to death by strangulation, he forced several of those who had been ordained by Formosus to resign their offices and he granted a few privileges to churches.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14289d.htm (285 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Electing a pope has a long history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The new pope then held a mock trial for the old one, stripped the corpse of its vestments, cut off the two fingers that bestowed papal blessings and threw the body into the Tiber.
		Peter, the first pope -- though historians say he was not called by that title in his lifetime -- named his successors.
		And on many occasions in the first Christian millennium, popes were chosen by the clergy and laity of Rome -- or by the clergy with assent from the laity.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/15/electing_a_pope_has_a_long_history?mode=PF (945 words)

	Stephen VI -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The era in which he was elected as the successor to Pope Boniface VI was torn by factions led by Roman aristocrats and by rulers of Naples, Benevento, Tuscany, and Spoleto (of whose ruling family Stephen was a member).
		pope from 885 to 891 whose pontificate witnessed the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and intermittent struggles for the Italian crown.
		A central figure during a dark period in papal history (896–898) revolving around the death of Pope Formosus, Boniface was denounced at a Roman council held by Pope John IX in 898.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9069597?&query=disinter&ct= (691 words)

	History House: His Holiness Stephen VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pope Stephen VI found himself with not a few enemies, and took great pleasure in giving them trouble.
		How Stephen became pope is apparently a bit unclear, though it had much more to do with feuding factions within Rome than it did with any sort of will of the Church or God.
		Then the three fingers used by a Pope in blessing were cut off and the pontifical vestments were torn from the poor corpse.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/stephen (474 words)

	Benrik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Benedict upheld the ordinances of Pope Formosus, whose rotting corpse was exhumed by Pope Stephen VI and put on trial in the infamous "Cadaver Synod" of 897.
		Pope Benedict VII (died 983) belonged to the noble family of the counts of Tusculum.
		He was a reforming pope and endeavoured to put a stop to the decadent lifestyles of the Italian priesthood and of the cardinalate.
	www.benrik.co.uk /content/blog.asp?entryID=22141 (3924 words)

	Saints of August 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 354, Pope Liberius deputed Eusebius and Bishop Lucifer of Cagliari to plead with Emperor Constantius to assemble a council to settle the differences between the Catholics and Arians.
		Stephen noted that baptism in the name of the Three Persons of the Trinity is valid, and was the practice even in the African church until the time of Bishop Agrippinus of Carthage at the end of the 2nd century.
		Pope Saint Stephen saw the implications that would result from Cyprian's belief and declared that no innovation was to be allowed and threatened Cyprian and his followers with excommunication.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0802.htm (2725 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Rome, Stephen was a member of the ruling house of Spoleto.
		Before he was elected pope in 896, he was bishop of Agnani.
		Stephen declared all of Formosus' ordinations invalid and required that any clergyman whom Formosus had ordained write a letter acknowledging that his ordination had been and was invalid.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/stephenvii.html (178 words)

	Conclave arises from reform - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Peter, the first pope — though historians say he was not called by that title in his lifetime — named his successors.
		And on many occasions in the first Christian millennium, popes were chosen by the clergy and laity of Rome — or by the clergy with assent from the laity.
		The papacy's political problem had roots in the eighth century, when Pope Stephen II allied with the Franks against Germanic and Byzantine monarchs and established the Papal States — making the popes absolute rulers of a sovereign, secular realm.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Apr/16/il/il10p.html (939 words)

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		During the sojourn of the Holy Brothers in Rome, St. Cyril died on February 14, 869 A.D., and was buried with great solemnity in the Basilica of St. Clement.
		Pope Adrian II then ordained St. Methodius bishop and appointed him a Papal Legate for the Slavic peoples.
		But soon after his death, Bishop Wiching of Nitra hastened to Rome and, having forged some vital documents, induced Pope Stephen VI to revoke Gorazd's nomination and to appoint him, Wiching, head of the Moravian Metropolitan Province, originally organized by St. Methodius with seven suffragan sees.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /spirit/cyril.htm (1619 words)

	ipedia.com: Pope Innocent VI Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Innocent VI, né Stephen Aubert, pope at Avignon from 1352 to 1362, the successor of Clement VI, was a native of the diocese of Limoges, and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, became bishop su...
		Pope Innocent VI Innocent VI, né Stephen Aubert (1282 - September 12, 1362), pope at Avignon from 1352 to 1362, the successor of Clement VI, was a native of the diocese of Limoges, and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, became bishop successively of Noyon and of Clermont.
		It was largely through the exertions of Innocent that the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) between France and England was brought about.
	www.ipedia.com /pope_innocent_vi.html (318 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stephen VI (VII) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The title of Pope is given to the bishop of Rome who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Stephen, Saint (Protomartyr), known as The Protomartyr (died ad36?), first Christian martyr, according to the New Testament (see Acts 6, 7).
		Born in Rome, he was bishop of Anagni before his election to the papacy.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Stephen_VI_(VII).html (147 words)

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