Bible Encyclopedias
Romanus, Pope

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Romanticists, the.

Next Entry
Rombouts, Dirck

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Dictionaries
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Romanus, Pope
Encyclopedias
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Romanus, Pope
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Pope Romanus

in A.D. 897, reigned only four months and twenty-three days. A single letter is all that history has preserved of his remains, and the only remarkable event of his pontificate was his disapproval of the indignities inflicted by his predecessor, Stephen VI, on the lifeless body of Formosus I (891-896). See the article. Romanus abrogated the unjust decrees of his predecessor, by which all the acts of Formosus had been declared void, and confirmed the consecrations and other pontifical acts which had been so nullified. See Bower, Lives of the Popes, 5, 71-73; Baronius, Annales, A.D. 891-896.