Stephen IX (or X)

Stephen IX (or X)

pope
original name Frederick Of Lorraine, French Frédéric De Lorraine
born c. 1000, , Lorraine
died March 29, 1058, Florence

      pope from August 1057 to March 1058, one of the key pontiffs to begin the Gregorian reform.

      The brother of Duke Godfrey of Lorraine, he studied at Liège, where he became archdeacon. Under his cousin Pope Leo IX he became a prime papal adviser and a member of the inner circle that led the movement for ecclesiastical reform. In 1054 he was papal legate to Constantinople, subsequently retiring to the important Benedictine abbey of Montecassino; he became abbot there in 1057. Pope Victor II, shortly before his death on July 28, 1057, made Frederick cardinal priest. He succeeded Victor as Pope Stephen IX on the following August 2 but was himself dying when elected.

      During Stephen's brief pontificate the general church reform begun by Leo gained impetus. He convoked a Roman synod to denounce simony (i.e., the buying or selling of a church office), zealously enforced clerical celibacy, and centralized the reform. Among the celebrated reforming ecclesiastics employed by Stephen were Cardinal Peter Damian, the powerful Roman cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida, and Cardinal Hildebrand (later Pope Gregory VII). He secured the cooperation of cardinals and Roman burghers to ensure the canonical and independent election of his successor, requesting them to await the return of Hildebrand, whom he had dispatched as legate in Germany. Stephen died in the midst of plans to halt the Norman advance in southern Italy and to negotiate an end to the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western churches. Buried in the church of S. Reparata, he is honoured as blessed by an unofficial popular cult commemorating him on March 29.

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