# Pope Leo V

> A priest from outside Rome's inner circle who held the papacy for roughly two months in 903 before being seized by one of his own cardinals, imprisoned, and likely killed — either by his successor or the one after that.

*Pope*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/pope-leo-v

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Italy
- **Died:** 905
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Leo V was born at Priapi near Ardea and rose through the priesthood without becoming a cardinal of Rome. Elected pope after Benedict IV's death in 903, he issued a tax-exemption bull for the canons of Bologna during a pontificate that lasted a little over two months. Then Christopher, cardinal-priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso, captured him, threw him in prison, and claimed the papacy for himself. Leo died shortly after — murdered on Christopher's orders in 903, or possibly killed alongside Christopher when Sergius III took power in 904, either by Sergius himself or his patron Theophylact I of Tusculum. One papal scholar argued he may have simply died naturally behind bars or in a monastery, though the violent versions carried more currency.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Politician, #Politics, #Religion, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_V)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172404)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Pope%20Leo%20V)
- [لاون الخامس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3)
- [ليو الخامس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3)
- [Papa Leon V](https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Leon_V)
- [Леў V (папа рымскі)](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%9E_V_(%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96))
- [Леў V (Папа Рымскі)](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%9E_V_(%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96))
- [Лъв V (папа)](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8A%D0%B2_V_(%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0))
- [Leon V](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_V)
- [Papa Lleó V](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Lle%C3%B3_V)
- [Gáu-huòng Leo 5-sié](https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1u-hu%C3%B2ng_Leo_5-si%C3%A9)
- [León V (papa)](https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_V_(papa))
- [Lev V.](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_V.)
- [Pave Leo 5.](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pave_Leo_5.)
- [Leo V. (Papst)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V._(Papst))
- [Leo V (papa)](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V_(papa))
- [Πάπας Λέων Ε΄](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%95%CE%84)
- [Leono la 5-a](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leono_la_5-a)
- [León V (papa)](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_V_(papa))
- [Leo V (paavst)](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V_(paavst))
- [Leon V.a (aita santua)](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_V.a_(aita_santua))
- [پاپ لئون پنجم](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE_%D9%84%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85)
- [Leo V (paavi)](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V_(paavi))
- [Léon V (pape)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_V_(pape))
- [Pous Leo V](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pous_Leo_V)
- [Leo V. (Papst)](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V._(Papst))

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