Pope Marinus II (died May 946) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 30 October 942 to his death.
Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian.
He extended the appointment of Archbishop Frederick of Mainz as papal vicar and missus dominicus throughout Germany and Francia.
[2] Marinus later intervened when the bishop of Capua seized without authorization a church which had been given to the local Benedictine monks.
[4] Marinus occupied the palace built by Pope John VII atop the Palatine Hill in the ruins of the Domus Gaiana.