Pope Theodore II
Pope (840-897) · Italy · Religious Figures · Died at 57
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Something wrong?He ruled the Catholic Church for twenty days in December 897, long enough to reverse one of history's strangest papal trials: the Cadaver Synod, in which his predecessor had put a dead pope on trial.
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Theodore was born around 840 and became bishop of Rome in December 897, stepping into a Church torn by faction and a central Italy racked with disorder. His predecessor Stephen VI had exhumed Pope Formosus, dressed the corpse in vestments, staged a trial, and annulled all his acts. Theodore spent his brief papacy undoing that: he declared the Cadaver Synod void, reinstated Formosus's ordinations, and had the body pulled from the Tiber and reburied with honour. Twenty days after taking office, he died.
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