Pope Theodore II

Pope Theodore II

Infobox Pope
English name=Theodore II


birth_name=Theodorus
term_start=December, 897
term_end=December, 897
predecessor=Romanus
successor=John IX
birth_date= ???
birthplace=Constantinople
dead=dead|death_date=December, 897
deathplace=Rome, Italy
other=Theodore

Theodore II was the son of Photius, the patriarch of ConstantinopleFact|date=February 2007. He was ordained as a priest by Pope Stephen V; also his brother Theotius was a bishop. He was pope for twenty days during December 897 before he died. He reinstated the clerics who had been forced from office by Pope Stephen VI, recognizing the validity of the ordinations of Pope Formosus. He had the body of Formosus, which had been thrown in the Tiber and recovered near Porto, reburied in St. Peter's.


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