biography
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| Pope (896–7), who succeeded Boniface VI. He backed the Spoleto family against the Carinthia, that had been supported by Pope Formosus. In 897 he had Formosus exhumed and tried in the concilio cadaverico (the corpse's council), after which all the dead pope's provisions were declared void and his body thrown into the R Tiber. Following a popular revolt, Stephen was jailed and murdered there. Pope John IX condemned Stephen's council and burned its acts. |
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