Editing Pope Stephen VI (section)

==Family and career==
Stephen was born in [[Rome]].<ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-VI-or-VII |title=Stephen VI (or VII) |author=((The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> His father was a priest named John. Stephen was made [[bishop of Anagni]] by [[Pope Formosus]],<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Platina
  | first = Bartolomeo
  | author-link = Bartolomeo Platina
  | title = The Lives of the Popes From The Time Of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII
  | publisher = Griffith Farran & Co.
  | location = London
  | pages = 237–238
  | volume = I
  | year= 1479
  | url = https://archive.org/details/thelivesofthepop01platuoft
   | access-date= 25 April 2013
}}</ref> possibly against his will.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14289d.htm Mann, Horace. "Pope Stephen (VI) VII." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved: 21 September 2017.</ref>