Pope Stephen II

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Pope752–757

Who

Crossed the Alps to anoint Pepin king of the Franks, who gave the Roman church the lands that became the Papal States. (Another Stephen, elected in 752, died before consecration and is not counted.)

Sources

Annuario Pontificio

Lineage

In the succession →

See of Rome, 752–757.

Succeeded: Pope Zachary741–752
See of Rome, 752–757
Succeeded by: Pope Paul I757–767
See of Rome, 757–767

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