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95th Roman Pontiff
Adrian I
Hadrianus
94th Successor of St Peter · 772–795 · Rome · b. Rome, Exarchate of Ravenna, Eastern Roman Empire
772
Elected
795
Reign ended
23 years
Length
8th
Century
The Life
(Eastern) Roman citizen, later the sovereign of the independent Papal States. Was of Roman ethnicity. Pope during the Second Council of Nicaea (787), the seventh ecumenical council accepted by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
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