Pope John XVIII
?–1009 CE · Rome
John XVIII, born Giovanni Fasano, reigned under the patrician Giovanni Crescenzio, who held practical power in Rome. Despite this dependence, his pontificate saw some constructive activity: he worked toward reconciling the long-running schism over the see of Sens in France, and supported missionary efforts in the Slavic and Hungarian lands. Notably, his name appears in the Constantinopolitan diptychs around this time, a rare moment of relative goodwill between Rome and the Eastern Church. Sources suggest he may have resigned to become a monk before his death in 1009, though the record is sparse.
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Rome in this era
Between the 8th and 15th centuries Rome was the seat of the popes and capital of the Papal States, which grew from the Frankish king Pepin's grant of 756; Charlemagne was crowned emperor in St Peter's in 800. The city shrank far below its ancient size, and from 1309 to 1377 the popes resided at Avignon before returning to Rome.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Pope John XII, Pope Sylvester II, Pope Gregory V, Pope Sergius IV, Pope Gregory VI, Pope John XIX
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Pope John XVIII’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Pope John XII, Pope Sylvester II, Pope Gregory V, Pope Sergius IV, Pope Gregory VI, Pope John XIX, Pope John XVII, Pope John XV, Pope John XIV, Pope Benedict VII, Pope Benedict VI, Pope John XIII, Pope Benedict V, Pope Leo VIII, Pope Agapetus II, Pope Marinus II, Pope Stephen VIII, Pope Leo VII
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