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Head of the Catholic Church from 1009 to 1012
Sergius IV
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Church
| Catholic Church
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Papacy began
| 31 July 1009
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Papacy ended
| 12 May 1012
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Predecessor
| John XVIII
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Successor
| Benedict VIII
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Consecration
| 1004
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Created cardinal
| 1004
by John XVIII
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Born
| Pietro Martino Buccaporci
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Died
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1012-05-12
)
12 May 1012
Rome, Papal States,
Holy Roman Empire
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Previous post(s)
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Other popes named Sergius
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Pope Sergius IV
(died 12 May 1012) was the
bishop of Rome
and nominal ruler of the
Papal States
from 31 July 1009 to his death. His
temporal power
was eclipsed by the patrician
John Crescentius
. Sergius IV may have called for the expulsion of Muslims from the
Holy Land
, but this is disputed. Since his time, the practice that the person who has been elected to the office of pope takes on a new name became a tradition.
[1]
Early life
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Pietro Martino Buccaporci was born in
Rome
in the "Pina" district, at an unknown date, the son of Peter the Shoemaker and Stephania.
[2]
Buccaporci
was neither his birth name nor the name of his family, but apparently a nickname given to him because of his personal habits.
[3]
In 1004, he became the
bishop of Albano
.
[4]
[5]
He was elected
pope
after the
abdication
of
John XVIII
in 1009, and adopted the name Sergius IV.
[6]
Pontificate
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The power held by Sergius IV was small and often overshadowed by the patrician,
John Crescentius
, the ruler of the city of Rome at the time. With the help of Crescentius, Sergius resisted the attempts of
Emperor Otto III
to establish control over Rome. Sergius IV acted to relieve famine in the city, and he exempted several monasteries from episcopal rule.
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A
papal bull
calling for
Muslims
to be driven from the
Holy Land
after the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
was destroyed in 1009 by the
Fatimid
caliph
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
has been attributed to Sergius IV, although its authenticity has long been a matter of debate.
[7]
Carl Erdmann
considered it genuine,
[8]
but it was rejected at length by Aleksander Gieysztor, who suggested that it was actually invented around the time of the
First Crusade
in order to help justify that expedition to
Jerusalem
.
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Subsequently, Hans Martin Schaller has argued for the document's authenticity.
[10]
Death and legacy
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Sergius died on 12 May 1012 and was buried in the
Basilica of St. John Lateran
.
[5]
Although not canonized, Sergius is sometimes venerated as a saint by the
Benedictines
of which he was a member.
[11]
There was some suspicion that he was murdered, as he died within a week of Crescentius, considered by many to have been his patron.
[12]
Sergius was followed in the papacy by
Benedict VIII
.
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References
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Goez, Werner (1970).
"PAPA QUI ET EPISCOPUS: ZUM SELBSTVERSTANDNIS DES REFORMPAPSTTUMS IM 11. JAHRHUNDERT"
.
Archivum Historiae Pontificiae
.
8
: 27?59.
JSTOR
23563726
.
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Duchesne, p. 267.
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Alphonsus Ciaconius (Alfonso Chacon) (1677). Agostinus Olduinus (ed.).
Vitae et res gestae pontificum romanorum: et S.R.E. cardinalium
(in Latin). Vol. Tomus primus. Roma: P. et A. De Rubeis. p. 765.
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His epitaph, quoted by Duchesne, p. 264, states,
Albanum regimen lustro venerabilis uno rexit
. A
lustrum
is a five-year period.
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c
Mann, Horace. "Pope Sergius IV." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 8 November 2017
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"
"Sergius IV", The Holy See"
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Jules Auguste Lair (1899).
Bulle du pape Sergius IV.: Lettres de Gerbert
(in French and Latin). Paris: A. Picard et fils. pp. 1?88.
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Carl Erdmann (1965).
Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens
(in German). Stuttgart:
W. Kohlhammer
.
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Aleksander Gieysztor (1950).
The Genesis of the Crusades: The Encyclical of Sergius IV (1009?1012)
.
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Hans Martin Schaller (1991), 'Zur Kreuzzugensyklika Papst Sergius' IV.', in:
Papsttum, Kirche und Recht im Mittelalter. Festschrift fur Horst Fuhrmann zum 65. Geburtstag
, ed. Hubert Mordek (Tubingen 1991), 135?153 (in German).
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Richard P. McBrien,
Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from St. Peter to Benedict XVI
, (HarperCollins Publishers, 2000), 168.
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"Catholic Online"
.
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Mann, Horace (1907). "
Pope Benedict VIII
". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
Catholic Encyclopedia
. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Sources
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
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Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pope Sergius IV".
Catholic Encyclopedia
. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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