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{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 903 to c. 904}}

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Pope Leo V was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from July 903 to his death in February 904. He was pope immediately before the period known as the Saeculum obscurum, when popes wielded little temporal authority.Leo V was born at a place called Priapi, near Ardea. Although he was a priest when he was elected pope following the death of Pope Benedict IV (900–903),{{Citation }} he was not a cardinal priest of Rome.Mann, pg. 111During his brief pontificate, Leo granted the canons of Bologna a special bull (epistola tuitionis) where he exempted them from the payment of taxes. However, after a reign of a little over two months, Leo was captured by Christopher, the cardinal-priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso, and thrown into prison. Christopher then had himself elected pope (903–904). Although now considered an antipope, he had until recently been considered a legitimate pope.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} Mann on the other hand argued in 1910 that Christopher was likely an antipope.Mann, pg. 112-115 If Leo never acquiesced to his deposition, then he can be considered legitimate pope until his death in 904.Leo died shortly after being deposed.