Everything about Pope John Xix totally explained
John XIX (born in
Rome, died October
1032), born
Romanus, was
Pope from
1024 to
1032.
He succeeded his brother,
Pope Benedict VIII (1012–24), both being members of the powerful house of
Tusculum. When elected Pope John XIX he was an unordained layman. Therefore, he was
ordained a bishop in order to enable him to ascend the papal chair, having previously been a
consul and
senator.
Against the grain of ecclesiastical history, John XIX agreed, upon being paid with a large bribe, to grant to the
Patriarch of Constantinople the title of an
ecumenical bishop. However, this proposal excited general indignation throughout the Church, thus compelling him almost immediately to withdraw from his agreement.
On the death of the Emperor
Henry II (1002–24) in
1024, he gave his support to Emperor
Conrad II (1024–39), who along with his consort was crowned with great pomp at
St. Peter's Basilica on
Easter of
1027.
In
1025 he sent the crown to
Poland and blessed the coronation of the Polish king
Bolesław Chrobry.
On
6 April 1027, John held a Lateran synod in which he declared for the
patriarch of Aquileia against
that of Grado, giving its bishop (then
Poppo) the patriarchal dignity and putting the bishop of Grado under his jurisdiction. In fact, the patriarch took precedence over all Italian bishops. In
1029, John revoked his decision and reaffirmed all the dignities of Grado. John also gave a bull to
Byzantius, Archbishop of Bari, endowing him with the right to consecrate his own twelve suffragans after the reattachment of the Bariot diocese to Rome in
1025.
After John XIX's death, his nephew,
Pope Benedict IX (1032–44, 1045, 1047–48), was found as a successor, although he was still young: according to some sources, he was only 12, but he was more likely to have been about 18 or 20.
Note that the next Pope named John was
Pope John XXI (1276–77) and there's no
Pope John XX (see article for explanation).
(Another note on numbering: Pope John XIX was only the eighteenth pope called John, because John XVI was an antipope. However, this wasn't recognized at the time so the true sixteenth Pope John called himself XVII. Thus the true eighteenth pope called John took the regnal number XIX. But some historians (perhaps due to the numbering of Pope John XXI), however, often called him Pope John XX or "John XIX (XX)" due to the legend of another Pope John between Pope John XIV and the true Pope John XV (whom historians sometimes thus called XVI). This legend of a pope between John XIV and John XV, and the antipapacy of John XVI, is why there's so much confusion of the numbering of Popes John, and why the sequence of Johns is now two off.)
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