ADRIAN III. Pope, was a Roman by birth, and succeeded
Adrian. Marinus, or Martin II. in 884. His virtue, zeal, and firmness, gave favourable presages of his future career; but he was cut off by death in the 13th month of his pontificate, during a journey to Worms, whither he was proceeding to hold a diet. He was at variance, like his predecessor, with the patriarch Photius, who rejected the doctrine that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son.