Pope Benedict IX

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Pope1032–1044; 1045; 1047–1048

Who

Theophylact of Tusculum, made pope as a young man by his family; he was driven out, returned, sold the office to Gregory VI and seized it once more. The Annuario counts his three pontificates as the 145th, 147th and 150th.

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Annuario Pontificio

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In the succession →

See of Rome, 1032–1044; 1045; 1047–1048.

Succeeded: Pope John XIX1024–1032
See of Rome, 1032–1044; 1045; 1047–1048
Succeeded by: Pope Damasus II1048
See of Rome, 1048
Pope Gregory VI1045–1046
See of Rome, 1045–1046
Pope Sylvester III1045
See of Rome, 1045

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