Pope John X


John X
Bishop of Rome
ChurchCatholic Church
Papacy beganMarch 914
Papacy endedMay 928
PredecessorLando
SuccessorLeo VI
Previous post(s)Cardinal-Priest (907–914)
Personal details
Born
DiedRome, Papal States
Other popes named John

Pope John X (Latin: Ioannes X; died 28 May 928) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from March 914 to his death. A candidate of the counts of Tusculum, he attempted to unify Italy under the leadership of Berengar of Friuli, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Saracens at the Battle of Garigliano.[1] He eventually fell out with Marozia, who had him deposed, imprisoned, and finally murdered. John’s pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.

  1. ^ Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1841). Soames, Henry (ed.). Institutes of ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern. A new and literal tr. Longman. p. 721.