Pope Benedict IX (Person) AKA Theophylactus of Tusculum, Benedictus Nonus
Pope Benedict IX
1012 AD - 1055 AD
AKA Theophylactus of Tusculum, Benedictus Nonus
Pope of the Catholic Church 1032 – 1044
Pope of the Catholic Church 1045
Pope of the Catholic Church 1047 – 1048
Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048.Aged approximately 20 at his first election, he is one of the youngest popes in history. He is the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy.
He was the nephew of his immediate predecessor, John XIX.
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