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head of the papal chapel
Theophylact’s office was financial/administrative, not leadership of the papal chapel.
Full reasoning
The description "head of the papal chapel" does not match the office Theophylact actually held.
Theophylact is described in standard reference works as vestararius, an office tied to the papal treasury and temporal administration:
- Treccani explains that his title of vestararius meant "capo dell'amministrazione finanziaria della Santa Sede" — head of the Holy See’s financial administration.
- The New Catholic Encyclopedia says Formosus had appointed Theophylact vestararius, "an office of considerable influence and importance in the control of the temporalities of the Holy See."
So the office was connected with the papal court’s finances and temporal administration, not with being "head of the papal chapel."
2 sources
- Teofilatto - Enciclopedia - Treccani
poi insignito del titolo di magister militum e di vestararius (cioè capo dell'amministrazione finanziaria della Santa Sede)
- Lando, Pope | Encyclopedia.com
Pope formosus had appointed the original theophylactus as vestararius... an office of considerable influence and importance in the control of the temporalities of the Holy See.