Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Popes & papal documents Antipopes

John XVI, Antipope

GIOVANNI XVI, ANTIPAPA

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Also known as: John Philagathos; Italian: Giovanni Filagato; Latin: Joannes Philagathus

JOHN XVI, Antipope. - Born at Rossano in Calabria, died in 1013 (?). G. Filagato, a Greek of obscure family who became abbot of Nonantola through the favor of the Empress Theophano, then coadjutor and later bishop of Pavia and envoy of Otto III to Constantinople, was, on his return from this legation and in the Emperor's absence, raised to the papal see, perhaps against his will, by John Crescentius, in opposition to the fugitive imperial pope Gregory V (Apr. 997). When the Emperor returned, G. was blinded, horribly mutilated and relegated to a monastery. He died, it seems, in the abbey of Fulda.

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BIBL.: Jaffé-Wattenbach, I, pp. 495-96; Lib. Pont., II, pp. 261-62; MGH, Scriptores, XIII, p. 210; J. M. Watterich (v. above Giov. VIII), pp. 68, 689-90; L. Duchesne (v. above Giov. VIII), p. 363; P. Gregorovius (v. above Giov. VIII), II, I, pp. 103-105.

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By Giovanni Battista Picotti

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 589.

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Picotti, Giovanni Battista. “Giovanni XVI, antipapa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 589. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-xvi-antipapa.

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Picotti, Giovanni Battista. “Giovanni XVI, antipapa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 589. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-xvi-antipapa.

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  author    = {Picotti, Giovanni Battista},
  title     = {Giovanni XVI, antipapa},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {589},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-xvi-antipapa}
}

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