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JOHN XIX

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN XIX ., See also:pope from 1024 to 1033, succeeded his See also:brother See also:Benedict VIII., both being members of the powerful See also:house of See also:Tusculum. He merely took orders to enable him to ascend the papal See also:chair, having previously been a See also:consul and senator. He displayed his freedom from ecclesiastical prejudices, if also his utter See also:ignorance of ecclesiastical See also:history, by agreeing, on the See also:payment of a large bribe, to See also:grant to the See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople the See also:title of an ecumenical See also:bishop, but the See also:general indignation which the proposal excited throughout the See also:church compelled him almost immediately to withdraw from his agreement. On the See also:death of the See also:emperor See also:Henry II. in 1024 he gave his support to See also:Conrad II., who along with his See also:consort was crowned with See also:great pomp at St See also:Peter's in See also:Easter of 1027. John died in 1033, in the full See also:possession of his dignities. A successor was found for him in his See also:nephew Benedict IX., a boy of only twelve years of See also:age. (L.

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