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Boniface VI, Pope or Antipope of Rome
IX Century
Boniface VI, son of Bishop Adrian, was elected to the Roman see in 896.
His election was supported by Lambert, Duke of Spoleto, and opposed by
Arnulf, King of the Franks. The Roman people also supported Boniface, who
died 15 days after his election. He was buried in the portico of the
popes.
In 898, John IX convened a council that invalidated Boniface's election on
the grounds that Boniface had been defrocked when he was a subdeacon and
defrocked again when he was a priest. He had not, at the time of his
election, been reconciled to the church and reinstated as a priest. His
body remained in its burial place.
Karen Rae Keck
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