# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-leo-v
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:27.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pope-leo-v"
name: "Pope Leo V"
slug: "pope-leo-v"
description: "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."
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image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pope_Leo_V.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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deathDate: "905"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.13338
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "León V (papa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_V."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پاپ لئون پنجم"
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    title: "Leo V (paavi)"
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    title: "Léon V (pape)"
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    title: "Pous Leo V"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.