# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-stephen-vii
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:33.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pope-stephen-vii"
name: "Pope Stephen VII"
slug: "pope-stephen-vii"
description: "A pope installed by Marozia during the Saeculum obscurum — the \"dark age\" when Rome's most powerful woman picked pontiffs like chess pieces."
tagline: "Pope (929-931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pope_Stephen_VII_(2).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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deathDate: "931"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.82882882882883
  historical:           22.064044
  currentAttention:     49.04904904904905
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 202
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235920"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "ستيفان السابع"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стэфан VII (VIII)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stefan VII"
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    title: "Esteban VII"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0t%C4%9Bp%C3%A1n_VII."
    title: "Štěpán VII."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pave_Stefan_7."
    title: "Pave Stefan 7."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_VII."
    title: "Stephan VII."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_VII"
    title: "Stefan VII"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پاپ استفان هفتم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanus_VII"
    title: "Stefanus VII"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_VII"
    title: "Étienne VII"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pápa Stiofán VII"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kau-f%C3%B2ng_Stephanus_7-s%E1%B9%B3"
    title: "Kau-fòng Stephanus 7-sṳ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pous_Stefanus_VII"
    title: "Pous Stefanus VII"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_VII."
    title: "Stephan VII."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Stephen VII became bishop of Rome in February 929, a candidate of Marozia, the woman who controlled the papacy during the era historians call the Saeculum obscurum. His pontificate unfolded entirely within that shadow period, when temporal power and family ambition shaped the throne of St. Peter more than spiritual authority. He ruled the Papal States in name while the machinery of influence ran elsewhere. He died on 15 March 931, two years into a reign defined less by what he did than by who put him there.