Pope Theodore II
Pope Theodore II was the son of
Photius. He was ordained as a priest by
Pope Stephen VI; also his brother Theotius was a bishop. He was pope for twenty days during December
897 before he died. He reinstated the clerics who had been forced from office by
Pope Stephen VII, recognizing the validity of the ordinations of
Pope Formosus. He had the body of Formosus, which had been thrown in the
Tiber and recovered near Porto, reburied in St. Peter's.