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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Stephen (IX) X
Born probably about the beginning of the eleventh century; died at Florence, 29 March, 1058
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XXI (XX)
Born at Lisbon between 1210 and 1220; enthroned, 1276; died at Viterbo, 20 May, 1277
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Felix I
The successor of Pope St. Dionysius, Felix died in 274. He is sometimes confused with a Roman martyr of the same name
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11514a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Paschal I
Pope who reigned from 817 to 824
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12229b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Pontian
He was exiled to the Sardinian mines in 235 and died there of privation
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15218b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Urban VIII
Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644)
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01155b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Adrian I
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XVIII (XIX)
Successor of John XVII, consecrated Christmas, 1003; d. June, 1009
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Agapetus I
Anti-Arian, instrumental in deposing a Monophysite bishop who had moreover abandoned his see, d. 536
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06798a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory X
Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Stephen (VII) VIII
Date of birth unknown; died in February or March, 931
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02432a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict XIV
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict XI
Elected unanimously, author of Scriptural commentaries, d. 1304
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08431a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XXII
Born at Cahors in 1249; enthroned, 5 September, 1316; died at Avignon, 4 December, 1334
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict VI
Benedict, Cardinal-Deacon of St. Theodore, a Roman and the son of Hildebrand, was elected as the successor of John XIII
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11602a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pelagius I
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sergius III
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Leo XII
Born at the Castello della Genga in the territory of Spoleto, 22 August, 1760; died in Rome, 10 February, 1829
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sergius IV
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Adrian II
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Zosimus
Account of his pontificate focuses on his entanglement with the Pelagian controversy
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Benedict II
A Roman, he was pope for a little less than eleven months, and died in 685. Account of his pontificate
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Boniface I
Consecrated the same day as the antipope Eulalius. Both were ordered to leave Rome. Eulalius took over St. John Lateran on Holy Saturday, after which the...
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02660a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Boniface II
Elected 17 September, 530; died October, 532
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05133a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Donus
Son of a Roman called Mauricius; he was consecrated Bishop of Rome 2 Nov., 676, to succeed Adeodatus II, after an interval of four months and seventeen days;...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Anicetus
Biography of this martyr, a contemporary of St. Polycarp and of the heretic Marcion
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09159b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Leo V
Very little is known of him. No certainty either as to when he was elected or as to exactly how long he reigned
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08011a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent I
Unanimously chosen to succeed Anastasius. Essay on his writings and some of the more notable events of his pontificate. Innocent died in 417
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XV (XVI)
Enthroned 985; d. April, 996
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14377a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Saint Symmachus
Lengthy article on this pope, who died in 514
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Vigilius
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04614a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Damasus II
A native of Bavaria and the third German to be elevated to the See of Peter
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05638a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Saint Eutychianus
The successor of Pope Felix I. Eutychianus died in 283
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05598b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Eugene II
Elected 6 June, 824; died 27 Aug., 827
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15409a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Victor II
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01287b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander IV
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Anastasius IV
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict IV
A Roman and the son of Mammalus, became pope in the first half of 900
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Vitalian
He tried to win over the Monothelites who then held sway in Constantinople, and was the reigning pope at the time of the Synod of Whitby. He died in 672
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Stephen (VIII) IX
Date of birth unknown; he became pope about 14 July, 939, and died about the end of Oct., 942
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Agapetus II
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04023a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement VI
Born 1291 in the castle of Maumont, departmentof Correze, France, elected pope, 7 May, 1342, at Avignon, where he died 6 December, 1352
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander II
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent XI
Lengthy biography of this pope known for his piety and unselfish devotion to duty
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John II
A Roman and the son of Projectus; if not born in the second region (Coelimontium) he had at least been a priest of St. Clement's Basilica
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Simplicius
Reigned 468-483; date of birth unknown; died 10 March, 483
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12126c.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pius II
Pope who reigned from 1458 to 1464
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XI
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory V
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent IX
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Sergius I
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Anastasius III
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Lucius II
Born at Bologna, unknown date, died at Rome, 15 February, 1145
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Gregory II
Also known as Gregory Junior, or Gregory the Younger, d. 731
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Liberius
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09157b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Leo III
Biography of this pope, who died in 816
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Siricius
Siricius condemned Jovinian, but this did not spare the pope from criticism by St. Jerome
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09411a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Saint Lucius I
Biographical article on this pope, exiled for a time, who reigned less than one year, and died in 254
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Theodore II
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Stephen (III) IV
Born about 720; died 1 or 3 August, 772
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Callistus II
Date of birth unknown; died 13 December, 1124
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John V
A Syrian whose father was one Cyriacus; when he was born is not known; d. 2 August, 686
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Miltiades
Died in 314. An African, his name is also sometimes given as Miltiadea or Melchiades
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01294a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander VII
Biographical article on this seventeenth-century pontiff
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Marcellus I
After a vacancy in office following the death of Pope St. Marcellinus, was elected to the papacy in 308. Fairly lengthy biographical article
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement XII
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15214a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Bl. Urban V
Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05009b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Dionysius
Elected towards the end of a wave of persecution. Dionysius opposed the errors of the Sabellians and Marcionites, and died in 268
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11054a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Saint Nicholas I
Biography of this pope, d. 867, who upheld the authority of the papacy and the inviolability of marriage
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Blessed Eugene III
Cistercian monk and abbot chosen by unanimous vote of the College of Cardinals to succeed Lucius II. Blessed Eugene died in 1153
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Zachary
Biography of this eighth-century pontiff, with special emphasis on his diplomacy and his relations with St. Boniface
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement XIII
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sixtus IV
Born near Abisola, 21 July, 1414; died 12 Aug., 1484
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15410a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Blessed Victor III
Benedictine monk, peacemaker, abbot of Monte Cassino, elected to the papacy in 1086, d. 1087
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory XIII
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XII
Date of birth unknown; reigned 955-64
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09272b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Linus
Reigned about A.D. 64 or 67 to 76 or 79
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Callistus I
Martyr, d. about 223. Also known as Callixtus or Calixtus
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06789b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory IV
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427e.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict III
Date of birth unknown; d. 17 April, 858
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Felix IV
Since Felix II was an antipope imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, St. Felix IV is sometimes called Felix III. Pope St. Felix IV died in...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sylvester I
In office for 21 years, while Constantine was emperor. St. Sylvester died in 335
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05378a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Eleutherius
Native of Nicopolis, served as deacon in the Roman Church, d. about 189
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory VI
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sisinnius
Successor of John VII, he was consecrated probably 15 January, 708, and died after a brief pontificate of about three weeks; he was buried in St. Peter's
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XIX (XX)
Enthroned in 1024; d. 1032
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02670a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Boniface IX
Elected at Rome, 2 November, 1389, as successor of the Roman Pope, Urban VI; d. there, 1 October, 1404
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Pius V
Biography of the sixteenth-century pontiff
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pius VIII
Pope who reigned from 1829 to 1830
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01295a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander VIII
Pietro Ottoboni, born at Venice, April, 1610; elected 5 October, 1689; died at Rome, 1 February, 1691
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04028b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement X
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07593a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Hyginus
Greek by birth, the successor of Pope Telesphorus. Died in about 142
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08427a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XIII
Date of birth unknown; enthroned on 1 Oct., 965; d. 6 Sept., 972
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14477b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Telesphorus
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09725a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Martin V
Born at Genazzano in the Campagna di Roma, 1368; died at Rome, 20 Feb., 1431
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01156c.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Adrian IV
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08018a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent V
French Dominican, known as 'most famous doctor,' d. 1276
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Valentine
Reigned briefly in A.D. 827
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https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08421a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. John I
A Tuscan, was warmly received in Constantinople, but upon his return to Rome, was imprisoned by King Theodoric. Pope John died in prison in 526
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