Pope Conon

Pope (630-687)

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Lived 630–687, aged 57

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630–687
Aged 57

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Updated 2026-05-29

Led Rome's Catholic Church for barely a year in 686–687, installed as a peace offering between feuding military and clerical factions. Blessed Irish missionary St Kilian before sending him off to convert Franconia.

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Pope Conon was the bishop of Rome from 21 October 686 to his death on 21 September 687. He had been put forward as a compromise candidate, there being a conflict between the two factions resident in Rome — the military and the clerical. He consecrated the Irish missionary St Kilian and commissioned him to preach in Franconia.

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