Pope Leo V
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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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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 T…
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