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| title = [[Bishop of Rome]] | | title = [[Bishop of Rome]] | ||
| birth_name = | | cardinal = December 928 | ||
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| term_start = February 929 | | term_start = February 929 | ||
| term_end = 15 March 931 | | term_end = 15 March 931 | ||
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Template:Infobox Christian leader Pope Stephen VII (Template:Langx; died 15 March 931)[1] was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from February 929 to his death in 931. A candidate of the infamous Marozia, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.
Election
Stephen was a Roman[2] by birth, the son of Germanic (Goth) Theodemundus/Theudemund.[3] He was the cardinal-priest of St Anastasia in Rome. He was probably handpicked by Marozia, the true ruler of Rome during the Saeculum obscurum, to become pope as a stop-gap measure until her own son John was ready to assume the role.[3]
Pontificate
Very little is known about Stephen's pontificate. During his two years as pope, Stephen confirmed the privileges of a few religious houses in France and Italy.[3] As a reward for helping free Stephen from the oppression of Hugh of Arles, Stephen granted Cante di Gabrielli the position of papal governor of Gubbio, and control over a number of key fortresses.[4] Stephen was also noted for the severity with which he treated clergy who strayed in their morals.[5] He was also, apparently, according to a hostile Greek source from the twelfth century, the first pope who went around clean shaved whilst pope.[6]
Stephen died around 15 March 931, and was succeeded by Marozia's son John XI.
References
- Mann, Horace K., The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. IV: The Popes in the Days of Feudal Anarchy, 891-999 (1910)
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- ↑ Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes: from the foundation of the See of Rome to A.D. 1758 (1845), pg. 311
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- ↑ a b c Mann, pg. 189
- ↑ Collegio araldico, Rivista, Volume 5 (1907), pg. 49
- ↑ DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L., A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint Peter, the First Bishop to Pius the Ninth (1857), pg. 287
- ↑ Mann, pg. 190