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Stephen Vi, Pope

STEPHEN VI, POPE, pope from May 896 to July-August 897, succeeded Boniface VI., and was in turn followed by Romanus. His conduct towards the remains of Formosus, his last predecessor but one (see FORMOSUS) excited a tumult, which ended in his imprisonment and death by strangling.

Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)

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