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The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. [1]
The Cadaver Synod as portrayed by Jean-Paul Laurens in 1870. Stephen VI, the successor of Boniface VI, influenced by Lambert and Agiltrude, sat in judgment of Formosus in 897, in what is known as the Cadaver Synod. The corpse was disinterred, clad in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to face all the charges from John VIII.
The rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial, before an unwilling synod of the Roman clergy, in the so-called Cadaver Synod in January 897. Pressure from the Spoleto contingent and Stephen's fury with Formosus probably precipitated this extraordinary event. [ 4 ]
In early 897 posthumously executed following the Cadaver Synod. His body was reburied with full Christian honours in 897. 112 11 April 896 – 26 April 896 (15 days) Boniface VI BONIFATIVS Sextus: Bonifatius Rome, Papal States Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. 113 22 May 896 – 14 August 897 (1 year, 84 days) Stephen VI ...
John IX/Roman Synod April 898 Role in the Cadaver Synod: Later reconciled; future Pope Sergius III [4] Benedetto Formosus: ante 896 John IX/Roman Synod April 898 Role in the Cadaver Synod [4] Martino Formosus: ante 896 John IX/Roman Synod April 898 Role in the Cadaver Synod [4] Giovanni Formosus: ante 896 John IX/Roman Synod April 898 Role in ...
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Pope Theodore II (Latin: Theodorus II; 840 – December 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for twenty days in December 897. His short reign occurred during a period of partisan strife in the Catholic Church, which was entangled with a period of violence and disorder in central Italy.