Pope Leo V
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Died 905
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Something wrong?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 Tusculum. One papal scholar argued he may have simply died naturally behind bars or in a monastery, though the violent versions carried more currency.
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