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| | History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. (i.iv.xvi) |
 | | Pope followed pope in rapid succession, and most of them ended their career in deposition, prison, and murder. |
 | | After the short reign of two other popes, John X., archbishop of Ravenna, was elected, contrary to all canons, in obedience to the will of Theodora, for the more convenient gratification of her passion (914–928). |
 | | Her son, the second Alberic, was raised by the Romans to the dignity of Consul, and ruled Rome and the papacy from the Castle of St. Angelo for twenty-two years with great ability as a despot under the forms of a republic (932–954). |
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