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from the 9th edition (1880s) of an unnamed encyclopedia
:preceded by [Pope Felix IV]? (526-530) :succeeded by Pope John II (533-535)
Boniface II, pope (530-532), was by birth an Ostrogoth, and owed his election to the influence of the Gothic king. He had for some time an
antipope, Dioscurus.