Pope Benedict II

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Benedict II
Birth name  ???
Papacy began 684
Papacy ended 685
Predecessor Leo II
Successor John V
Born  ???
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Died 685
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Other popes named Benedict
Styles of
Pope Benedict II
Reference style His Holiness
Spoken style Your Holiness
Religious style Holy Father
Posthumous style Saint

Pope Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685. He succeeded Leo II, but although chosen in 683 he was not ordained until 684, because the leave of the Emperor Constantine IV Pogonatus was not obtained until some months after the election. He obtained from the Emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the exarch in Ravenna.


Preceded by
Leo II
Pope
684–685
Succeeded by
John V