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111th Roman Pontiff
Formosus
FORMOSVS
Formosus
111th Successor of St Peter · 891–896 · Italy · b. Ostia, Papal States
891
Elected
896
Reign ended
5 years
Length
9th
Century
The Life
Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. Posthumously tried and executed by Stephen VI in January 897 at the Cadaver Synod. His body was reburied with full Christian honours in the late 897.
Portrait: Bartolomeo Sacchi, detto il Platina (1421-1481) / Wikimedia Commons