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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 trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope ...
Feb 7, 2019 · The Cadaver Synod: Putting a Dead Pope on Trial. Why did Pope Stephen VI go to such great lengths to destroy an enemy who was already dead? Pope Formosus and Stephen VI - The Cadaver Synod of 897 by Jean Paul Laurens, 1870. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Amelia Soth. February 7, 2019. 4 minutes.
That's exactly what happened in 897 C.E. when the body of Pope Formosus was unearthed and taken to a courtroom presided over by the then-current pope whose only intention was to find Pope Formosus guilty. The trial is known as the Cadaver Synod.
Aug 20, 2019 · Stephen VI was imprisoned and strangled to death in jail a few months after the Cadaver Synod. Two years later, Pope John IX reinstated Pope Formosus and banned further trials for dead...
Mar 31, 2024 · At a Roman synod (popularly called the “ Cadaver Synod”) conducted by Pope Stephen VI (VII), political enemies of Formosus had his nine-month-old corpse exhumed, propped up on a throne, and subjected to a mock trial—during which a deacon answered for the corpse.
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May 9, 2023 · In December 897, Pope Theodore II called a synod to annul the Cadaver Synod and ordered that Formosus’s body be returned and buried in Saint Peter’s Basilica in papal vestments. Then the following year, Pope John IX convened a synod in Rome and a second synod in Ravenna to nullify the Cadaver Synod further.
Jan 1, 1998 · Magazine. The Strange Case of Pope Formosus. O. S. Matthew • 1/1/1998. In early 897, a bizarre event known as the “cadaver synod” occurred in St. John Lateran’s in Rome. The disinterred corpse of Pope Formosus (891–894) was brought before the then-reigning pontiff, Stephen VI (896–897), to be tried on a variety of charges.
