Boniface VI, pope, a native of Rome, was elected in April 896 as a result of riots soon after the death of Pope Formosus. Prior to his reign, he had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest. After a pontificate of fifteen days, he is said by some to have died of the gout, by others to have been forcibly ejected to make way for Stephen VII, the candidate of the Spoletan party. The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Events The Bulgarians, under Simeon I, defeat the Byzantine Empire at Bulgarophygon. ... Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Etienne VII (1870). ... Stephen VII, was Pope from May 896 to July or August 897. ... The independent Duchy of Spoleto in southern Italy was a Lombard territory founded about 570 by a Lombard dux Faroald. ...

At the Council of Rome, held by John IX in 898, his election was pronounced null. John IX, pope from 898 to 900, not only confirmed the judgment of his predecessor Theodore II in granting Christian burial to Formosus, but at a council held at Ravenna decreed that the records of the synod which had condemned him should be burned. ... Events Accession of Pope John IX Accession of King Kasyapa IV of Sri Lanka Magyar army headed by Almosh besieges Kiev Magyar tribes found state of Szekesfahervar in Hungary Bologna joins Italian Kingdom End of Yodit era in Ethiopia Foundation of Bhaktapur in Nepal Births Deaths King Udaya II of...

Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Etienne VII (1870). ... For a graphical representation of this list, see list of popes (graphical). ... Stephen VII, was Pope from May 896 to July or August 897. ...

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