Pope Stephen III (born 720)

Pope Stephen III

Head of the Catholic Church from 768 to 772

Pope Stephen III was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 7 August 768 to his death on 24 January 772. Stephen was a Benedictine monk who worked in the Lateran Palace during the reign of Pope Zachary. In the midst of a tumultuous contest by rival factions to…