Pope Benedict VI

Benedict VI. (* In Rome, † July 974 ibid.) was Pope from January 19 to June or July 973 974 His name means the blessed one (latin ).

Before his pontificate, Benedict was Cardinal Deacon of San Teodoro. He was a follower of Emperor Otto I and was contrary to the hopes of the Crescentii from the house of Tusculum, a Roman noble family who under John XIII. was stand up, elected after his death in the autumn of 972 to the Pope. Since the election acknowledgment of the emperor had to wait, he was ordained in January 973. After the death of Otto in May 973 he lost his support in Rome and in the following year made ​​him a group of Roman nobles under the leadership of Crescentii Crescentius de Theodora, son of John Crescentius and Theodora the Younger and thus brother of Pope John XIII. , From and imprisoned him in the Castel Sant'Angelo. Then rose Crescentius de Theodora Boniface VII Antipope, Benedict VI. who slew in July 974. When the son of the late Emperor Otto I, Emperor Otto II was approaching, the anti-pope fled to Byzantium. A in some Pope Benedict VI lists between. and Benedict VII pushed- Pope " Damasus II " has never existed.

Inner Ecclesiastically is of Benedict VI. only significant confirmation of the creation of the Archdiocese of Prague.

In the Campo Santo Teutonico a grave stone fragment was discovered during construction work in 1885 that could have come from the grave plate Benedict.