The Catholic Encyclopedia

Pope Stephen (VII) VIII

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Stephen (VII) VIII, Pope (929-31), date of birth unknown; d. in Feb. or March, 931. He became pope either at the end of 928 or at the beginning of 929. Except that he was a Roman, the son of Teudemund, and sometime cardinal-priest of St. Anastasia, and that when pope he issued certain privileges for monasteries in France and Italy, and was buried in St. Peter’s, nothing more is known of him.

Liber Pontificalis, II, 242; Jarré, Regesta (Leipzig, 1888), 453-4; Mann, Lives of the Popes, IV, 189 sqq.

Horace K. Mann.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1912. Public domain.