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

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