Stephen IX
pope
b. c. 1000 · d. 29 Mar 1058
154th Bishop of Rome (Pope) · 9 Aug 1057–29 Mar 1058
Offices
- Bishop of Rome (Pope) № 154 · 9 Aug 1057 – 29 Mar 1058
Pope Stephen IX was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 3 August 1057 to his death on 29 March 1058. He was a member of the Ardenne-Verdun family, who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine, and started his ecclesiastical career as a canon in Liège. He was invited to Rome by Pope Leo IX, who made him chancellor in 1051 and one of three legates to Constantinople in 1054. The failure of their negotiations with Patriarch Michael I Cerularius of Constantinople and Archbishop Leo of Ohrid led to the permanent East–West Schism. He continued as chancellor to the next pope, Victor II, and was elected abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino.
Related people
- Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine child of · traditional
- Urraca d'Ivrea child of · traditional
- Humbert of Silva Candida consecrated by · traditional
- Victor II succeeded · traditional
- Regelindis of Lower-Lorraine sibling of · traditional
- Gothelo II of Lower Lorraine sibling of · traditional
Commemorated
Places
- Duchy of Lorraine birth
- Santa Reparata, Florence burial
- Florence death
- Papal States ministry
- Rome ministry
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.