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Loading...| Preceded by John XVIII |
142nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 31 July 1009 - 12 May 1012 |
Succeeded by Benedict VIII |
Biography
Pietro Buccaporci, known as Pope Sergius IV, was the 142nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pietro Martino Buccaporci was born in the Pina district of Rome, the son of shoemaker Peter and Stephania.[1]
He was a Benedictine.[1]
He became Bishop of Albano in 1004 and elected pope taking the name Sergius IV in 1009.[1][2]
Platina[3] states:
- Sergius the Fourth, a Roman, son of Martin, succeeded; a man of a most holy life and sweet conversation both before and in his pontificate. He was charitable to the poor, cheerful among his friends and acquaintances, merciful to those who were faulty, and mild even with the perverse. ...
- [In] Italy and almost all the world, too, labouring under a famine and pestilence, the holy man Sergius died in the second year and fifteenth day of his popedom, and was buried in St Peter's Church. The see was then vacant eight days.
He died on 12 May 1012 and was buried in the Basilica of St John Lateran.[1]
Research Notes
This profile is being updated by the Popes Project.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wikipedia Pope Sergius IV
- ↑ Vatican
- ↑ Platina, Bartolomeo (1479) The Lives of the Popes From the Time of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII, I, London: Griffith Farran & Co., pp266-267, retrieved 2021-04-04.
