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Pope Theodore II

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Son of Photius. His pontificate lasted only twenty days; neither the date of his birth nor of his accession to the papacy is known; it is probable that he was pope during December 897. He reinstated in synod the clerics who had been degraded by Stephen (VI) VII, ordered the burning of the acts of resignation which they had been forced to tender, and formally recognized the validity of the orders conferred by Pope Formosus. He caused the body of the last-named pope, which had been thrown into the Tiber and cast ashore by a flood, to be reburied in St. Peter's. By his contemporary Frodoard he is said to have been beloved by the clergy, to have himself loved and promoted peace, and to have been temperate, and chaste, and charitable to the poor.

Sources

FRODOARD, De Christi triumph. in P.L., CXXXV; AUXILIUS in DÜMMLER Auxilius und Vulgarius (Leipzig. 1866); JAFFÉ, Regesta. I (Leipzig, 1888); MANN, Lives of the Popes in the early Middle Ages (London, 1910), 88 sqq.

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APA citation. Mann, H. (1912). Pope Theodore II. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14570b.htm

MLA citation. Mann, Horace. "Pope Theodore II." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14570b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Marjorie Bravo-Leerabhandh.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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