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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About Syracuse (Sicily)
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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- Andrew of Crete· 650 CE–740 CE
- Pope St. Gregory II· 669 CE–731 CE
- Bede the Venerable· 673 CE–735 CE
- John of Damascus· 675 CE–749 CE
- Pope St. Zachary· 679 CE–752 CE
- Pope St. Paul I· 700 CE–767 CE
- Pope Stephen II· 714 CE–757 CE
- Alcuin of York· 735 CE–804 CE
- Theodore the Studite· 759 CE–826 CE
- Cosmas the Melodist· –773 CE
- Pope St. Gregory III· –741 CE
- Pope St. Paschal I· –824 CE
- Pope Eugene II· –827 CE
- Pope Valentine· –827 CE
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Rulers world
- Constantine V· 718 CE–775 CE
- al-Mansur· 714 CE–775 CE
- Yaxun Bahlam IV (Bird Jaguar IV)· 709 CE–
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat (Cauac Sky)· –785 CE
- al-Saffah (Abu al-Abbas)· 721 CE–754 CE
- Abd al-Rahman I· 731 CE–788 CE
- al-Mahdi· 744 CE–785 CE
- al-Walid II· 709 CE–744 CE
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang· 685 CE–762 CE
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Chaak (Smoking Squirrel)· 688 CE–
- Emperor Kanmu· 737 CE–806 CE
- Hisham I· 757 CE–796 CE
- Irene of Athens· 752 CE–803 CE
- K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III· 678 CE–
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