Benedict III

Benedict III
died A.D. 858, pope 855-58.

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▪ pope
born , Rome
died April 17, 858, Rome

      pope from 855 to 858, who was chosen as successor to Leo IV in July 855. The election was not immediately confirmed by the Holy Roman emperor Louis II the Bavarian, who set up Anastasius the Librarian as antipope. Benedict was imprisoned, but the imperial government's opposition to Benedict was dropped, and he was consecrated pope. He reprimanded the Frankish bishops, whose inaction he blamed as the source of misery in their empire, and reasserted Rome's primatial authority over Constantinople. Benedict also was responsible for the repair of Roman churches damaged by the Saracens in 846.

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