Editing Pope Anastasius III

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 911 to 913}}

{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Pope
| honorific-prefix = [[List of popes|Pope]]
| name = Anastasius III
| title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| image = Stato della chiesa, denaro di anastasio III, 911-913.JPG
|caption=[[Denarius]] of Anastasius III
| birth_name = Anastasius
| term_start = April 911
| term_end = June 913
| predecessor = [[Pope Sergius III|Sergius III]]
| successor = [[Pope Lando|Lando]]
| birth_date = c. 865
| birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
| death_date = June 913
| death_place = Rome, Papal States
| other = Anastasius
}}

'''Pope Anastasius III''' (c. 865 — June 913<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/banast.html |title=Pope Anastasius III (Anastasio ) [Catholic-Hierarchy] |access-date=19 April 2022}}</ref>) was the [[bishop of Rome]] and ruler of the [[Papal States]] from April 911 to his death.

Anastasius was a Roman by birth.<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 = 244
  | volume = I
  | year= 1479
  | url = https://archive.org/details/thelivesofthepop01platuoft
   | access-date= 2013-04-25
}}</ref> A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor, [[Pope Sergius III]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Almost nothing is recorded of Pope Anastasius III, his pontificate falling in the [[Saeculum obscurum|period]] when Rome and the papacy were in the power of [[Theophylact I of Tusculum]] and [[Theodora (senatrix)|Theodora]], who approved Anastasius III's candidacy. Under his reign, the [[Normans]] of [[Rollo]] were evangelized. Anastasius III's papacy faced renewed threats from the [[Saracens]], after they established themselves on the [[Garigliano]] river.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roger Collins|title=Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy|url=https://archive.org/details/keepersofkeysofh0000coll|url-access=registration|date=1 Jan 2009|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=9780786744183|page=[https://archive.org/details/keepersofkeysofh0000coll/page/175 175]}}</ref> He was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica]].

==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Anastasius}}
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455a.htm ''Catholic Encyclopedia'':] Pope Anastasius III
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609075824/http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0120.htm ''Catholic Forum'':] Pope Anastasius III
*[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01_01_0911-0913-_Anastasius_III.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes]

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