Editing Pope Benedict II

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 684 to 685}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Pope
| honorific-prefix = [[List of popes|Pope]] [[List of canonised popes|Saint]]
| name = Benedict II
| title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| image = 
| term_start = 26 June 684
| term_end = 8 May 685<ref name="ce">{{catholic|title=Pope St. Benedict II|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427d.htm|last=Mann|first=Horace|volume=2|year=1907|access-date=12 September 2017|inline=1}}</ref>
| predecessor = [[Pope Leo II|Leo II]]
| successor = [[Pope John V|John V]]
| birth_place = [[Rome]], Byzantine&nbsp;Empire
| death_date = 8 May 685
| death_place = Rome, Byzantine&nbsp;Empire
| other = Benedict
| feast_day = 7 May
}}

'''Pope Benedict II''' ({{langx|la|Benedictus II}}) was the [[bishop of Rome]] from 26 June 684 to his death. Pope Benedict II's feast day is 7 May.

==Early life==
Benedict was born in [[Rome]].<ref name=Butler>{{cite web| url = http://www.bartleby.com/210/5/072.html| title = Butler, Alban. ''The Lives of the Saints''. 1866| date = 12 January 2023}}</ref> It is possible that he was a member of the Savelli family, though this is not certain. Sent when young to the ''schola cantorum'', he distinguished himself by his knowledge of the Scriptures and by his singing.<ref name="ce"/>

==Papacy==
The bishops of Rome were anciently [[papal selection before 1059|chosen]] by the clergy and people of Rome, according to the discipline of those times; the [[Roman emperor]] was the head of the people, on which account his consent was required. But whilst the emperors resided in [[Constantinople]], this condition produced often long delays and considerable inconveniences. Although chosen in 683, he was not [[ordained]] until 684 awaiting the permission of Emperor [[Constantine IV]]. According to the ''[[Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum]]'', he obtained from the emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the [[exarch of Ravenna]]. Benedict symbolically adopted Constantine's sons, [[Justinian II]] and [[Heraclius (son of Constantine IV)|Heraclius]].<ref name="ce"/>

To help to suppress [[Monothelitism]], Benedict endeavoured to secure the subscriptions of the bishops of [[Hispania]] to the decrees of the [[Third Council of Constantinople]] of 680/1, and to bring about the submission to the decrees of Macarius, the deposed bishop of Antioch.<ref name="ce"/> Restorations of numerous churches in Rome are ascribed to the less than a year's pontificate of Benedict II, including [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]] and [[San Lorenzo in Lucina]].<ref>[https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095458443?p=emailASIegbN4K0bkU&d=/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095458443 "St Benedict II", ''A Dictionary of Popes'', 2nd ed. (J. N. D. Kelly  and Michael J. Walsh, eds.) OUP, 2014] {{ISBN|9780199295814}}</ref> After a pontificate of about eleven months, Pope Benedict II died on May 8, 685 and was buried in St. Peter's.<ref name="ce"/>

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