451: Leo the Great has the Chalcedon Council in which he successfully argues for the dual human-divine nature of Jesus Christ. He is also later credited for persuading Attila the Hun to leave Ital and spare Rome in 452.
He was also the first pope to claim to be a successor to Peter and the papacy as supreme authority over the church.
867: Adrian II becomes head of the church and is the last married pope.
897: Pope Stephen VII orders the corpse of his predecessor, Formosus, dug up, dressed in papal vestments and put on trial for violations of church law. The body is convicted in what is called the Cadaver Synod, and the three fingers used to give blessing cut off. The corpse is then tossed into the Tiber River, but later recovered and reburied.
More to Come.
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