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Spent his career in the papal court.
Elected pope on 5 months after the death of Leo VIII, as a compromise candidate, with the agreement of Emperor Otto I. John's behaviour and foreign backing made him disliked in Rome. There was a revolt resulting in his temporary banishment occurring in December 965, John only returning November 966.
After John's restoration he worked with Otto towards ecclesiastical developments, including the creation of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . He also developed other Archbishoprics in southern Italy, reducing the influence of the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Orthodox Church there.
Christmas 967 John crowned Otto I's son Otto II as coemperor. Otto II was afterwards married to the niece of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces, as part of the ongoing attempt to reconcile Eastern and Western Churches.
972 Oswald, Archbishop of YorkThe Archbishop of York Primate of England, is the metropolitan of the Province of York, and the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. His cathedral is York Minster in central York and his official resi visited Rome. He created new Latin archbishoprics in southern Italy, thus reducing the influence of the Eastern Orthodox church, as well as the Byzantine EmpireThe Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the eastern section of the Roman Empire, with its capital at Constantinople (modern Istanbul), which remained in existence after the fall of Rome in the 5th century. The Byzantine period is usually consider.
| Preceded by Benedict VBenedict V (died July 4, 965), Pope (May 964 July 4, 965), was elected by the Romans on the death of John XII. The Roman emperor Otto I did not approve of the choice, and carried off the pope to Hamburg, where he died. Described by contemporaries as a rel | Pope ( list) | Succeeded by Benedict VIBenedict VI Pope ( 972 974), was chosen with great ceremony and installed pope under the protection of the Emperor Otto the Great. On the death of the emperor the turbulent citizens of Rome renewed their outrages, and the pope himself was strangled by ord |