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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XIII |
 | | In presence of the imperial envoys, Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, and Otgar, Bishop of Speyer, the emperor's candidate, John, Bishop of Narni, was elected pope, and crowned on 1 October, 965, as John XIII. |
 | | John travelled with Otto to Ravenna, where in April, 967, he held another synod in which the elevation of Magdeburg to metropolitan dignity was confirmed, disputes were decided, privileges conferred upon churches and convents, and Ravenna with its territory restored to the pope as part of the Ecclesiastical States. |
 | | John also favoured the negotiations held with the Byzantines for a matrimonial alliance between Otto II and the Princess Theophano. |
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