 |
Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the or at requests for expansion. (May 2007) |
| Benedict II | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | ??? |
| Papacy began | June 26, 684 |
| Papacy ended | May 8, 685 |
| Predecessor | Leo II |
| Successor | John V |
| Born | ??? Rome, Italy |
| Died | May 8 685 Rome, Italy. Location of tomb has since been lost. |
| Other popes named Benedict | |
| Styles of Pope Benedict II |
|
 |
|
| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | Saint |
Pope Saint Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685. He came from the Roman Savelli family and succeeded Leo II. Although chosen in 683 he was not ordained until 684, because the leave of Emperor Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election. According to 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. This gave the power of confirmations of papal nominations directly to the Church and the people of Rome. Benedict also symbolically adopted Constantine's two sons Justinian and Heraclius. To help to suppress Monothelitism, he endeavoured to secure the subscriptions of the bishops of Hispania to the decrees of the Third Council of Constantinople, of 678, and to bring about the submission to the decrees of Macarius, the deposed bishop of Antioch. Restorations of numerous churches in Rome are ascribed to the less than a year's pontificate of Benedict II.
External links
| Catholic Church titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Leo II |
Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Peter (deprecated A.D. 495), Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles Supreme Pontiff (Pontifex Maximus) Patriarch of the West (deprecated 2006), Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province Servant of the Servants of God Pope 684–685 |
Succeeded by John V |
