What is Pope Stephen VII?
{{Infobox Christian leader |type = Pope |honorific-prefix=Pope |name=Stephen VII |image=Pope Stephen VII (2).jpg |image_size=220px |birth_name=Stephanus de Gabrielli |term_start=February 929 |term_end=15 March 931 |predecessor=[[Pope Leo VI|Leo VI]] |successor=[[Pope John XI|John XI]] |birth_date=??? |birth_place=[[Rome]], [[Papal States]] |death_date=15 March 931 |death_place=[[Rome]], [[Papal States]] |other= }} '''Pope Stephen VII''' (??? − 15 March 931) was [[pope]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] from February 929 until 15 March 931 when he died. He was elected by [[Marozia]] from the [[House of Tusculum|Tusculani]] family, as a stop-gap measure until her own son [[Pope John XI|John]] was ready. Before being elected, he was the cardinal-priest of St Anastasia in Rome.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mann, Horace K.|title=The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. IV: The Popes in the Days of Feudal Anarchy, 891-999|page=189}}</ref> He died on 15 March 931 in [[Rome]] and was succeeded by [[Pope John XI]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bower, Archibald|title=The History of the Popes: from the foundation of the See of Rome to A.D. 1758|page=311}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{S-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{S-bef|before=[[Pope Leo VI|Leo VI]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Pope]]|years=928–931}} {{s-aft|after=[[Pope John XI|John XI]]}} {{end}} {{Popes}} {{multistub|bio|religion}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stephen VII}} [[Category:930s deaths]] [[Category:Italian popes|Stephen VII]] [[Category:Year of birth unknown]]