{"slug": "pope-stephen-ii", "label": "Pope Stephen II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211789", "qid": "Q211789", "description": "pope", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [715, 757], "span_label": ["715 CE", "757 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "papal-states", "label": "Papal States", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pepin-the-short", "label": "Pepin the Short", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-paul-i", "label": "Pope Paul I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carloman-i", "label": "Carloman I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "patrician-ancient-rome", "label": "Patrician (ancient Rome)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 715, "year_label": "715 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 757)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367661130#Births", "title": "715", "revid": 1367661130, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 752, "year_label": "752 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – Pope Stephen II (sometimes referred to as Stephen III) succeeds Zachary as the 92nd pope of the Catholic Church. He marks the end of the Byzantine Papacy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809787#Religion", "title": "752", "revid": 1340809787, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 753, "year_label": "753 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Fall – Pope Stephen II travels to the Lombard capital of Pavia, for negotiations with Aistulf. His terms for returning the Exarchate of Ravenna are declined.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809798#Religion", "title": "753", "revid": 1340809798, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 754, "year_label": "754 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – Pope Stephen II re-consecrates Pepin III (the Short) as king of the Franks, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris, bestowing upon him the additional title of Patricius of the Romans. This marks the first recorded crowning of a civil ruler by a pope. Pepin assumes the role of ordained protector of the Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360259946#Europe", "title": "754", "revid": 1360259946, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 756, "year_label": "756 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Aistulf of the Lombards again threatens Rome with a view to making it his capital, but the Franks under Pepin III (\"the Short\") arrives with his sons Charles and Carloman, defeats Aistulf, and confers the Donation of Pepin, which establishes the Papal States (including the lands of Ravenna and the Pentapolis). Pepin has taken territory that legally belongs to the Byzantine Empire; he gives it to Pope Stephen II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654675#Europe", "title": "756", "revid": 1366654675, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Church", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Deaths", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – Pope Stephen II dies at Rome after a 5-year reign, in which he has freed the papacy from Byzantine rule. Stephen allies with Pepin III against the Lombards, and becomes the first temporal sovereign of the Papal States. He is succeeded by his brother Paul I, as the 93rd pope of the Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Religion", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}]}