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Pope Stephen (VII) VIII

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(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 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.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Pope Stephen (VII) VIII'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/pope-stephen-vii-viii.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
 
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