Pope Stephen III
720 CE–772 CE · Syracuse (Sicily)
A Sicilian-born monk who rose through the Roman clergy, Stephen III came to the throne after the violent, disputed reign of the antipope Constantine II, whose backers had seized power by force. A Roman synod in 769 annulled Constantine's acts and tightened rules for papal elections, restricting them to the cardinal clergy and barring laymen—an important step in disentangling the papacy from aristocratic and military factions. Stephen's pontificate was buffeted by Lombard intrigue and shifting Frankish politics under Charlemagne and Carloman. His reign illustrates the turbulence and factional violence that increasingly surrounded eighth-century papal successions.
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The greatest Greek city of the West—a Corinthian colony that grew into a Mediterranean superpower, fended off both Athens and Carthage, and gave the world the comic poet Epicharmus and the towering genius of Archimedes.
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