Stephen (VII) VIII, Pope
Stephen (VII) VIII, Pope
(929-31)
Date of birth unknown; died in February or March, 931. He became pope either at the end of 928 or at the beginning of 929. Except that he was a Roman, the son of Teudemund, and sometime cardinal-priest of St. Anastasia, and that when pope he issued certain privileges for monasteries in France and Italy, and was buried in St. Peter’s, nothing more is known of him.
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Liber Pontificalis, II, 242; JAFFÉ, Regesta (Leipzig, 1888), 453-4; MANN, Lives of the Popes, IV, 189 sqq.
HORACE K. MANN. Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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