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* [[January]] &ndash; The [[Cadaver Synod]]: Lambert II orders Stephen VI to exhume the nine-month-old cadaver of former pope [[Pope Formosus|Formosus]], to redress him in papal robes, and have him put on trial while seated in a chair at [[Old St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]. Formosus is 'convicted' of several crimes, his fingers of [[consecration]] are cut off, and the body is stripped of his [[Pontifical vestments|vestments]].
* [[August]] &ndash; Stephen VI is removed from office, imprisoned and [[Strangling|strangled]] in his cell. He is succeeded by [[Pope Romanus|Romanus]] as the 114th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]].
* [[December]] &ndash; Romanus is deposed and succeeded by [[Pope Theodore II|Theodore II]] as the 115th pope of Rome, who dies twenty days later.
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