LEONE VII, POPE. — He was pope from January 936 to July 939, but nothing is known about his person, and little is known about his activities.
The chronicler Flodoard calls him a “true servant of God,” which suggests that he favored the reform of ecclesiastical morals advocated at that time by certain monks and by the very lord of Rome, Alberico, nephew of Teofilatto. The few bulls of this Pontiff that have survived are almost all addressed to the monasteries of Cluny and Subiaco and concern donations and privileges. Relations between him and Alberico were good, but later deteriorated under subsequent pontiffs. Finally, mention should be made of an act of his addressed to the German bishops, containing various provisions concerning marriages between blood relatives, the recitation of prayers at Mass, and excommunication for magicians and fortune-tellers.