Pope Lando

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Lando
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Papacy began July or August 913
Papacy ended February or March 914
Predecessor Anastasius III
Successor John X
Personal details
Birth name Lando
Born ???
Sabina, Papal States
Died February or March 914
Rome, Papal States

Lando (also known as Landus[1][2]) was elected Pope in either July or August 913.[3] He died about six months later, in either February or March 914.[4]

He was born in Sabina, Italy. His father was reportedly named Taino. He did not change his name on his accession.

Lando is thought to have been a candidate of Theophylact I, Count of Tusculum, who helped him to be elected pope.[5] During his reign, Arab raiders destroyed the cathedral of Vescovio in Sabina.[6]

Lando was pope during the period later known as the Saeculum obscurum, which lasted from 904 to 964.

He was the last pope to use a papal name that had not been previously used until the election of Pope Francis in 2013.[a]

Contents

Sources [edit]

  • Claudio Rendina. I papi. Storia e segreti. Newton Compton, Rome, 1983.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Pope John Paul I, elected in 1978, took a new combination of already used names, in honour of his two immediate predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI.[7]

References [edit]

  1. ^ De vita et scriptis Liudprandi, Episcopi Cremonensis
  2. ^ Platina, Bartolomeo (1479), The Lives of the Popes From The Time Of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII I, London: Griffith Farran & Co., p. 245, retrieved 2013-04-25. 
  3. ^ Fedele, Pietro (1910). "Ricerche per la storia di Rome e del papato al. sec. X". Archivo della Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria, 33: 177–247.
  4. ^  "Pope Lando". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 
  5. ^ Lando, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, ed. J.N.D. Kelly, (Oxford University Press, 1988), 121.
  6. ^ Roger Collins, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy, (Basic Books, 2009), 175.
  7. ^ The Conclave : August 25th - 26th, 1978. Accessed 2013-03-18.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Anastasius III
Pope
913–914
Succeeded by
John X