Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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117th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 900 - 903. Benedict IV upheld the ordinances of Pope Formosus, whose rotting corpse had been exhumed by Pope Stephen VI and put on trial in the Cadaver ...

John IX

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116th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 898 -900. John held several synods in Rome in an attempt to diminish the violence of faction in Rome. John sanctioned the consecration of a metropolitan ...

John XII

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130th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 955 - 964. Before his death in 954, Alberic administered an oath to the Roman nobles in St. Peter's providing that the next vacancy for the papal chair ...

John XIV

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136th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 983 - 984. He was born at Pavia, and before his elevation to the papal chair was imperial chancellor of Emperor Otto II, yet still only the latter's ...

Benedict VI

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134th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 973 -974. He was born in Rome as the son of Hildebrand. He was chosen with great ceremony and installed as pope under the protection of the Emperor Otto ...

John XIII

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133rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 965 - 972. After a period as bishop of Narni, he was elected Pope John XIII five months after the death of Pope Leo VIII as a compromise candidate with ...

Benedict VII

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135th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 974 - 983. Before his election to the papacy, he had previously served as Bishop of Sutri. He belonged to the noble family of the Counts of Tusculum. He ...