The Cadaver Synod

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In January 897, something unprecedented took place in Rome. Pope Formosa, the leader of the Catholic Church, was put on trial. What made this unprecedented wasn’t that the pope was on trial, although it was unprecedented. The remarkable thing was that Pope Formosa had died seven months earlier, and it was his exhumed corpse that was in the courtroom. Learn more about the Cadaver Synod, perhaps the oddest trial in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In January 897, something unprecedented took place in Rome.
0:05.0	Pope Formosis, the leader of the Catholic Church, was put on trial.
0:09.0	What made this unprecedented wasn't that the Pope was on trial, although that was unprecedented.
0:14.0	The remarkable thing was that Pope Formosis had died nine months earlier,
0:19.0	and it was his exhumed corpse that was in the courtroom.
0:22.0	Learn more about the cadaver Synod, perhaps. exhumed corpse that was in the courtroom.
0:22.8	Learn more about the cadaver scented,
0:24.8	perhaps the oddest trial in history
0:26.9	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The paper The Papacy is an institution that's been around for a very long time and during that time
0:49.2	it's gone through different phases and it's seen some highs and lows. The events I'm going to be
0:54.3	describing in this episode are arguably the lowest point in paper history. It might
0:59.6	even seem like this story is apocryphal but the events were well documented and there's no reason to believe that it didn't happen.
1:06.0	To understand what led up to this bizarre episode, it's necessary to understand the political climate in Europe in the 9th century and the role the papacy played.
1:15.2	In the year 800, Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish King Charlemagne as the Roman Emperor.
1:21.1	Today we would call him the Holy Roman Emperor, but at the time the term was yet to be invented.
1:26.1	He was simply the Roman Emperor, an attempt to revive the position which had existed centuries
1:30.9	earlier.
1:32.3	The fact that the Pope was the one who crowned the
1:34.4	emperor put the papacy in an explicitly political role. Moreover, as part of the
1:39.8	deal Charlemagne cut to get crowned the Roman Emperor, he codified lands that were given to the Pope by his father, Pepin the Short.
1:47.0	These lands became the foundation of the Papal States, which were the lands in Italy ruled directly by the Pope until the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
1:55.5	In the wake of Charlemagne there were various factions that vied for power,
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