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POPE BENEDICT VII

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Date of birth unknown; d. c. October, 983. Acting under the influence of Sicco
(see BENEDICT VI), the Roman clergy and people elected to succeed Benedict VI
another Benedict, Bishop of Sutri, a Roman and the son of David (October, 974).
His authority was opposed by Boniface VII, and, though the antipope himself was
forced to fly, his party followed fiercely in his footsteps and compelled
Benedict to call upon Otho II for help. Firmly established on his throne by the
emperor, he showed himself both desirous of checking the tide of simony which
was rising high in the Church, and of advancing the cause of monasticism, which
then meant that of civilization. In response to a request of the people of
Carthage "to help the wretched province of Africa", he consecrated the priest
James, who had been sent to him for the purpose (see the letter of the papal
legate, the Abbot Leo, to the Kings Hugh Capet and Robert). Though he did not
die till about October, 983, our knowledge of his undertakings is not in
proportion to the length of his pontificate.


SOURCES

The most important source for the history of the first nine popes who bore the
name of Benedict is the biographies in the Liber Pontificalis, of which the most
useful edition is that of Duchesne, Le Liber Pontificalis (Paris, 1886-92), and
the latest that of Mommsen, Gesta Pontif. Roman. (to the end of the reign of
Constantine only, Berlin, 1898). Jaffé, Regesta Pont. Rom. (2d ed., Leipzig,
1885), gives a summary of the letters of each pope and tells where they may be
read at length. Modern accounts of these popes will be found in any large Church
history, or history of the City of Rome. The fullest account in English of most
of them is to be read in Mann, Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages
(London, 1902, passim).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Mann, H. (1907). Pope Benedict VII. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428d.htm

MLA citation. Mann, Horace. "Pope Benedict VII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428d.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Kryspin J.
Turczynski.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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