John (XVII)

John (XVII)

▪ pope [1003]
original name  Giovanni Siccone 
born , Rome
died Dec. 6, 1003

      pope from June to December 1003. Chosen by the patrician John Crescentius III, he succeeded Pope Sylvester II. John was merely a puppet of his relatives the Crescentii, then the most influential family in Rome. He approved an evangelical mission to the Slavs.

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