Pope Benedict VIII
?–1024 CE · Tusculum
Born Theophylactus of the Counts of Tusculum, Benedict VIII came to power as his family supplanted the Crescentii. A vigorous, worldly pope who led troops in person, he crowned Henry II emperor in 1014 and forged a close partnership with him. He drove the Saracens from central Italy and checked Byzantine ambitions in the south. At the reform synod of Pavia in 1022, working with Henry, he pressed against clerical marriage and simony. He is also credited with the first papally sanctioned inclusion of the Filioque clause in the Roman Mass's Creed in 1014, a step in the deepening East–West divide.
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Pope Benedict IX (3rd reign), Pope Benedict IX (2nd reign), Pope Benedict IX, Pope John XIX
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Pope Benedict IX (3rd reign), Pope Benedict IX (2nd reign), Pope Benedict IX, Pope John XIX, Pope Gregory VI, Pope Sergius IV
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