Stephen IX

Stephen IX

(VIII), a German, and related to the emperor Otto the Great, was elevated to the papacy by the action of clergy and people in 939, and reigned until 942. He was wholly unable to restrain the shameless rule of abandoned women in the Church, and, like the other popes of that period, was simply the creature and plaything of a party

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