Archdeacon Theophylact
Theophylact was an archdeacon of the Roman Church. After the death of Pope Stephen II in 757, a faction wanted to place him on the Holy See, but the majority chose the deceased Pope's brother Paul as successor.[1][2] Theophylact remained in the papal service, in 794 serving as one of Adrian I's legates to the Synod of Frankfurt.
References
[edit]- ^ Noble, Thomas F. X. (1984). The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 190–195. ISBN 978-0-8122-1239-6.
- ^ Smith, Sir William (1887). A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being a Continuation of 'The Dictionary of the Bible'. Little, Brown & Company. p. 264.
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