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9th Century
Supreme Pontiff	Detail (dates*, ages, prior name, feast, comment/attributes, etc.)
98. Stephen V (IV)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: June 22, 816 End of Reign: January 24, 817 Date of Death: January 24, 817 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 7 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Anointed and crowned the emperor. Renewed the alliance with the empire.
99. St. Pascal (Paschal) I	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 24/25, 817 End of Reign: February 11, 824 Date of Death: February 11, 824 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Just over 7 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): May 14 Anointed Lothar (the emperor's son). Fought iconoclasm. Was an active builder and restorer of churches.
100. Eugenius (Eugene) II	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: 824 End of Reign: August 827 Date of Death: August 827 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Asserted independence of the papacy in spiritual matters. Issued disciplinary canons (dealing with marriage, simony, education, etc.). Credited with resisting iconoclasm.
101. Valentine	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: August 827 End of Reign: September 827 Date of Death: September 827 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 1 month Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Considered a virtuous man, he was elected unanimously, but he died shortly thereafter.
102. Gregory IV	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: late 827 End of Reign: January 844 Date of Death: January 844 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 16 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Was tangled up in the quarrels of the temporal rulers. Built extensively, including a fortress (Gregoriopolis). Promoted the adoption of Roman liturgical uses.
103. Sergius II	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 844 End of Reign: January 27, 847 Date of Death: January 27, 847 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: "elderly" Lived to Approx. Age: "old age" Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Displeased the emperor by failing to honor the agreement concerning the consecration of a new pope. As a result, his army pillaged papal territories and he was subjected to investigation. Sergius eventually crowned the king that was sent. Has been criticized for his brother Benedict's poor administration (his assistance was necessitated by the pope's ill health). He made improvements to churches and aqueducts, but suffered the Muslim plundering of St. Peter's and St. Paul's outside the walls.
104. St. Leo IV	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: April 10, 847 End of Reign: July 17, 855 Date of Death: July 17, 855 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Over 8 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): July 17 Did much building and restoring, including construction of the 'Leonine city' to protect St. Peter's. Made other provisions for Rome's defense. Defended papal rights, restored Church disciple, performed miracles, and instituted the observance of the octave of the Assumption.
105. Benedict III	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: September 29, 855 End of Reign: April 17, 858 Date of Death: April 17, 858 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 2.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A After a difficult beginning (including imprisonment), he was consecrated pope. Secured peace among the emperor's sons. Did much restoration.
106. St. Nicholas I	Birth Date: c. 820 Beginning of Reign: April 24, 858 End of Reign: November 13, 867 Date of Death: November 13, 867 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 38 Lived to Approx. Age: 47 Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 9.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): November 13 Maintained and boldly asserted his papal primacy. Remained firm against repeated attempts at coercion. Defended the sanctity of marriage. Encouraged missionary work. The schism between the East and West may be dated from his pontificate. He is often called St. Nicholas "the Great".
107. Adrian (Hadrian) II	Birth Date: c. 792 Beginning of Reign: December 14, 867 End of Reign: Nov./Dec. 872 Date of Death: Nov./Dec. 872 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 75 Lived to Approx. Age: 80 Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A He was related to two previous popes and had twice refused the papacy himself. The beginning of his pontificate was marked by the pillaging of Rome. He is sometimes accused of weakness in not firmly upholding an action of St. Nicholas. He did, however, re-crown the emperor and support important missionary works which kept various Slovak peoples as part of the Western Church.
108. John VIII	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: December 14, 872 End of Reign: December 16, 882 Date of Death: December 16, 882 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: "old age" Approx. Length of Reign: Just over 10 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Fortified Rome in response to the Arab threat. Was opposed by Formosus (whom he excommunicated). Considered an arbiter of the imperial office. Defended the sanctity of marriage. It has been claimed that he was the first assassinated pope.
109. Marinus I (Martin II, Martinus II)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: December 16, 882 End of Reign: May 15, 884 Date of Death: May 15, 884 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 17 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Pardoned bishops condemned by John VIII. Settled a dispute over a newly founded monastery. Maintained good relations with England.
110. St. Adrian (Hadrian) III	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May 17, 884 End of Reign: September 885 Date of Death: September 885 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 16 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): July 8 His short papacy saw continued feuds over the supposed assassination of John VIII. It has been alleged that the pope ordered the blinding of an enemy of John VIII. Is suspected that he may have been murdered.
111. Stephen VI (V)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: September 885 End of Reign: September 14, 891 Date of Death: September 14, 891 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 6 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A He was known for holiness. During his papacy, he suffered famine, restored the Lateran, opposed the Slavic liturgy, and desperately sought (and finally received) military protection.
112. Formosus	Birth Date: c. 815 Beginning of Reign: October 6, 891 End of Reign: April 4, 896 Date of Death: April 4, 896 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 76 Lived to Approx. Age: 81 Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 4.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Before his reign, he was known for missionary activity, intelligence, and asceticism. He had assisted various popes, however at one point he was opposed by pope John VIII and was exiled by him. Once pope, he faced political problems. After his death, his body was exhumed by Steven VI (VIII) and put on trial.
113. Boniface VI	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: April 896 End of Reign: April 896 Date of Death: April 896 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 15 days Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A It is believed that his election was forced through and that he had been twice degraded for immorality. He died shortly after election.
114. Stephen VII (VI)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May 896 End of Reign: August 897 Date of Death: August 897 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 15 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Known for putting the deceased pope Formosus on trial (his body was exhumed, dressed in papal vestments, condemned, violated, and thrown in the Tiber) and annulling all his acts. Stephen was later thrown into prison where he was killed. [Note: Infallibility is not involved here as this is not a doctrinal matter.]
115. Romanus	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: August 897 End of Reign: November 897 Date of Death: N/A Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Although he was held to be a virtuous man, it is believed that he was deposed and confined to a monastery. He is said to have had Formosus' body reburied (it had been retrieved by a monk).
116. Theodore II	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: November/December 897 End of Reign: November/December 897 Date of Death: November/December 897 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 20 days Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A He overturned Stephen VII's (VI's) actions concerning pope Formosus, declaring Formosus' acts valid, and returned Formosus' body to St. Peter's. He died in less than three weeks.
117. John IX	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 898 End of Reign: January 900 Date of Death: January 900 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 2 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Once again, Stephen VII's (VI's) actions concerning pope Formosus were condemned and future trials of dead persons were prohibited. John restored degraded clerics and ordered an end to the plundering of the papal palace upon the death a pope.
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10th Century
Supreme Pontiff	Detail (dates*, ages, prior name, feast, comment/attributes, etc.)
118. Benedict IV	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May/June 900 End of Reign: July/August 903 Date of Death: July/August 903 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Confirmed acts of Formosus and of John IX, crowned the emperor, saw Rome return to anarchy
119. Leo V	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: August 903 End of Reign: September 903 Date of Death: early 904 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 1 month Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A His papacy lasted only about a month before he was overthrown and sent to prison. He was killed shortly thereafter. He is believed to have been a virtuous man.
120. Sergius III	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 29, 904 End of Reign: April 14, 911 Date of Death: April 14, 911 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 50's Lived to Approx. Age: 60's Approx. Length of Reign: Over 7 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A During his papacy, Rome suffered from attacks, robberies, and the decline of religious life. In one of the darkest hours of the papacy, Sergius is said to have had Leo killed, reaffirmed the posthumous trial of Formosus, and is alleged to have had a son by a fifteen year-old mistress and relative of Theodora (the child would later become pope John XI). The papacy also suffered from the control of Theophylact and Theodora. [Note: Infallibility is not involved here as these are not doctrinal matters.]
121. Anastasius III	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: c. June 911 End of Reign: c. August 913 Date of Death: c. August 913 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 2 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A During his reign, the papacy was effectively controlled by the unscrupulous Theophylact and Theodora and Anastasius is believed to have exercised little independent authority.
122. Lando (Landus)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: c. August 913 End of Reign: c. March 914 Date of Death: c. March 914 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Under 1 year Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A The papacy was still effectively controlled by the unscrupulous Theophylact and Theodora during his reign and they are believed to be behind his election. Little is known of his papacy.
123. John X	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: March/April 914 End of Reign: May 928 Date of Death: 929 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Over 14 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Much military and political activity occurred during his papacy. He is credited with completing the restoration of the Lateran, enhancing the prestige of the papacy, and restoring peace with the East. He has also been charged with making some decisions based on expediency (i.e. confirming a count's five year old son's election to the archbishopric in exchange for the release of the king). His determination of remaining independent is said to have upset the ruler (Theophylact's ruthless daughter Marozia) and is believed to have resulted in his being deposed, and ultimately killed.
124. Leo VI	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May 928 End of Reign: December 928 Date of Death: December 928 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: "elderly" Lived to Approx. Age: "old age" Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 7 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Believed to have been elevated to the papacy by the ruthless Marozia and restricted in action, he died after a short time.
125. Stephen VIII (VII)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: December 928 End of Reign: February 931 Date of Death: February 931 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Over 2 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Like Leo VI, he is believed to have been elevated to the papacy by the ruthless Marozia and restricted in action. He extended privileges to religious houses.
126. John XI	Birth Date: c. 905 Beginning of Reign: February/March, 931 End of Reign: December 935 /January 936 Date of Death: December 935 /January 936 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 26 Lived to Approx. Age: 30 Approx. Length of Reign: Under 5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Alleged to be the son of pope Sergius III and the ruthless Marozia, the young John XI is believed to have been controlled by his mother. During his pontificate, a sixteen year old was consecrated as Patriarch of Constantinople. His brother took over the city and John XI may have been imprisoned in the Lateran.
127. Leo VII	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 3, 936 End of Reign: July 13, 939 Date of Death: July 13, 939 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Thought to have been a monk, he negotiated peace and banned superstitious practices. He forbade the forced conversion of Jews but did not forbid their expulsion. Enjoyed a reputation for sanctity.
128. Stephen IX (VIII)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: July 14, 939 End of Reign: October 942 Date of Death: October 942 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Over 3 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Backed the King of France against a planned rebellion. He is believed to have been elevated to the papacy by the ruler of Rome, Alberic. Stephen IX (VIII) may have eventually angered Alberic and is thought to have been imprisoned on his orders (dying there due to injuries).
129. Marinus II (Martin III, Martinus III)	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: October 30, 942 End of Reign: May 946 Date of Death: May 946 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 3.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Supported monasteries. Charged with never acting without the sovereign ruler's (Alberic's) permission.
130. Agapitus (Agapetus) II	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May 10, 946 End of Reign: December 955 Date of Death: December 955 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 9.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Supported monastic reforms. The term of his papacy is credited with increasing prestige for the Bishopric of Rome. However, he was forced to promise the ruler (on his deathbed) to ensure the ruler's immoral son would succeed him as pope.
131. John XII	Birth Date: c. 937 Beginning of Reign: December 16, 955 End of Reign: May 14, 964 Date of Death: May 14, 964 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 18 Lived to Approx. Age: 27 Approx. Length of Reign: Nearly 8.5 years Prior Name (if different): Octavian Feast Day (if applicable): N/A The illegitimate son of the temporal rule Alberic was made pope due to his father's deathbed order. Despite his scandalous reputation and prohibition against discussing a successor before a pope dies, the young man became pope at age 18. It is said that he seized every opportunity of exercising papal authority. Due to the circumstances he faced, he crowned Otto and is therefore credited with reinaugurating the Holy Roman Empire (lasting until the 1800's). He is accused of turning the Lateran Palace into a brothel, plotting with the emperor's enemies, fleeing with the papal treasury, etc. There was a questionable attempt to depose him, but he was able to reestablish his position until he died soon thereafter (believed to be in connection with an adulterous encounter).
132. Leo VIII	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: December 4/6, 963 End of Reign: March 1, 965 Date of Death: March 1, 965 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 15 months Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Was chosen pope when John XII was questionably deposed. He had been a layman at the time. He was again declared pope after John XII's death. The validity of his pontificate has been questioned.
133. Benedict V	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: May 22, 964 End of Reign: June 23 964 Date of Death: July 4, 966 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 1 month Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Known for holiness, he was chosen pope instead of Leo VIII (as the emperor had wanted). The emperor later laid siege to the city and placed Leo back on the papal throne. Benedict was deposed on 6/23/964. It is argued that if Leo VIII was a legitimate pope, then Benedict should be reckoned an antipope.
134. John XIII	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: October 1, 965 End of Reign: September 6, 972 Date of Death: September 6, 972 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Nearly 7 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A The pope was imprisoned and exiled by the Romans. He later escaped and returned to Rome where he was welcomed back. The emperor exacted vengeance on the Romans for their actions against the pope. John promoted clerical celibacy, crowned the emperor's son, and married him (the emperor's son) to a pious princess.
135. Benedict VI	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: January 19, 973 End of Reign: c. July 974 Date of Death: c. July 974 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Over 1 year Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Supported monastic reform. He was opposed by the powerful Crescentii family (related to the Theophylact family that previously dominated the papacy) and was imprisoned and killed.
136. Benedict VII	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: October 974 End of Reign: July 10, 983 Date of Death: July 10, 983 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Almost 9 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Possibly a member of the Crescentii family. Excommunicated the antipope Boniface VII, condemned simony, promoted monasticism, and assisted persecuted Christians.
137. John XIV	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: December 983 End of Reign: August 20, 984 Date of Death: August 20, 984 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 8 months Prior Name (if different): Peter Canepanova Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Changed his name in honor of the first pope. After the death of the emperor, he was vulnerable. He was ultimately overthrown, assaulted, imprisoned, and died (possibly of starvation or poisoning)
138. John XV	Birth Date: N/A Beginning of Reign: August 985 End of Reign: March 996 Date of Death: March 996 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: N/A Lived to Approx. Age: N/A Approx. Length of Reign: Approx. 10.5 years Prior Name (if different): Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Secured peace between the King of England & Duke of Normandy and officially canonized St. Ulrich (the first formal canonization by a pope). At one point he was forced out of Rome.
139. Gregory V	Birth Date: c. 972 Beginning of Reign: May 3, 996 End of Reign: February 18, 999 Date of Death: February 18, 999 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 24 Lived to Approx. Age: 27 Approx. Length of Reign: Nearly 3 years Prior Name (if different): Bruno Feast Day (if applicable): N/A First German pope and relative of the emperor. Condemned simony. Was at one point driven out of Rome.
140. Silvester (Sylvester) II	Birth Date: c. 945 Beginning of Reign: April 2, 999 End of Reign: May 12, 1003 Date of Death: May 12, 1003 Approx. Age at Beginning of Reign: 54 Lived to Approx. Age: 58 Approx. Length of Reign: Over 4 years Prior Name (if different): Gerbert Feast Day (if applicable): N/A Scholar and first French pope. He invented the pendulum clock. As pope, he enforced celibacy, and denounced nepotism and simony. He was at one point driven out of Rome. He is considered a unifier and a bridge builder.
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