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Pope Stephen VI, who may be deranged, exhumes Pope Formosus's corpse at the behest of Lambert (who regained the crown) and makes it undergo trial for capital crimes at the "Cadaver Synod." After Formosus is convicted, three fingers are severed and the body is tossed into the Tiber River; the cadaver is later buried. An uprising deposes Stephen, and he is strangled while imprisoned. Romanus is made Pope, but he is deposed after four months; his replacement, Theodore II, is also perhaps murdered, his reign lasting only about a month.
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