Pope from 757-767. The brother of Pope Stephen 11 and a Roman, he was educated in the Lateran Palace, became a deacon under Pope Zachary, and wielded considerable influence in his brother's administration. Elected to succeed Stephen, he took as his primary concern the threat posed to
Rome and the
Papal States by the Lombards. Paul secured an alliance with the Frankish king Pepin the Short, thereby cementing the
relationship between the
Holy See and the Frankish Empire which culminated with the historically significant alliance between Pope
Leo III and Charlemagne. Paul also opposed the Iconoclast policies of the Byzantine emperor Constantine V, thereby exacerbating further the deteriorating
relationship between the papacy and the Byzantine Empire. He died on June 28 at St. Paul's Outside the Walls, in Rome
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