Pope Sylvester III
Pope Sylvester III | |
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Benedict IX | |
Successor | Benedict IX |
Personal details | |
Born | Giovanni dei Crescenzi – Ottaviani c. AD 1000 |
Died | 1063 (aged 63) Sabina, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire |
Other popes named Sylvester |
Pope Sylvester III (c. 1000 – October 1063), born John in
Background
Christened John, he was born into the powerful Roman patrician family
Papacy
John,
Nearly two years later, on 20 December 1046, the Council of Sutri, summoned and presided over by the Emperor Henry III, deprived him of his bishopric and priesthood, and ordered him sent to a monastery for the rest of his life.[6] This sentence was obviously suspended, because he continued to function and was recognized as bishop of Sabina until at least 1062.[7] A successor bishop to the see of Sabina, Hubaldus, is recorded under Pope Alexander II, on October 1063, indicating that John must have died prior to that date.[7]
Though some consider him to have been an antipope, Sylvester III continues to be listed as an official pope (1045) in Vatican lists. A similar situation applies to Pope Gregory VI (1045–1046). Sylvester's pontifical name was used again by Antipope Theodoric because at that time he was not considered a legitimate pontiff.
Notes
- ^ Lynch and Adamo, p. 156.
- ^ Jaffé, p. 523, calculating backward the 49 days of his papacy, from c. 11 March 1045, the date of his expulsion.
- ^ McBrien, p. 172.
- ^ McLaughlin, p. 63.
- ^ Pham, p. 57. Pope VIctor III, "Dialogues" Book III, in: J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Latinae Tomus CXLIX (Paris), p. 1004: "...alterumque in loco ejus, Joannem videlicet Sabinensem episcopum (non tamen vacua manu) canonica parvipendentes decreta, substituunt; qui tribus non amplius mensibus Romanae usus est cathedrae successione....Urbe cum dedecore pulsus, suum ad episcopatum reversus est."
- ^ Logan, p. 96. Jaffé, p. 524 and 525.
- ^ a b Kelly, p. 144.
References
- Philipp Jaffé (1885). G. Wattenbach (ed.). Regesta pontificum romanorum: ab condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII (in Latin). Vol. Tomus I (2nd ed.). Leipzig: Veit. pp. 523–525.
- J.N.D. Kelly and Michael J. Walsh, A Dictionary of Popes, second edition, Oxford University Press, 2010.
- F. Donald Logan, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2013.
- Joseph H. Lynch, and Philip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church, Routledge, 2014. ISBN 9781317563334
- Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes, HarperCollins, 2000.
- Megan McLaughlin, Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000-1122, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- John-Peter Pham, Heirs of the Fisherman : Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession, Oxford University Press, 2004.