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STEPHEN III

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN III ., See also:pope from the 7th of See also:August 768 to the 3rd of See also:February 772, was a native of See also:Sicily, and, having come to See also:Rome during the pontificate of See also:Gregory III., gradually See also:rose to high See also:office in the service of successive popes. On the deposition of See also:Constantine II. Stephen was chosen to succeed him. Fragmentary records are preserved of the See also:council (See also:April 769) at which the degradation of Constantine was completed, certain new arrangements for papal elections made, and the practice of See also:image-See also:worship confirmed. Stephen inclined to the Lombard rather than to the Frankish See also:alliance. He was succeeded by See also:Adrian I.

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