The Cadaver Trial: A Low Point of the Papacy

Pope Surgius III reversed the reversal of the Cadaver trial made by Theodore II. The entire incident backfired on Pope Stephen VI, who in his last moments must have realized that the entire trial was a grave mistake. Today's review comes from listener Dean Landcammer over on Apple Podcasts in the United States.

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In January 897, something unprecedented took place in Rome.

Pope Formosa, the leader of the Catholic Church, was put on trial.

What made this unprecedented wasn’t that the pope was on trial, although it was unprecedented.

The remarkable thing was that Pope Formosa had died seven months earlier, and it was his exhumed corpse that was in the courtroom.

Learn more about the Cadaver Synod, perhaps the oddest trial in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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