1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Valentinus (pope)

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VALENTINUS, pope for thirty or fourty days in 827, in succession to Eugenius II. (824–27). He was a Roman by birth, and, according to the Liber Pontificalis, was first made a deacon by Paschal I. (817–24). Nothing further is known of his history. His successor was Gregory IV. (827–44).