The Man who Became Pope Three Times (Pope Benedict IX)

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  • čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
  • This is the story of Pope Benedict IX, one of the youngest popes in history, the first pope to willfully step down as pope, and the pope who was on the papal throne not once, not twice, but three times.
    CGPGrey video mentioned: • How to Become Pope
    Some sources:
    Benedict IX and Gregory VI by Reginald Lane Poole
    Pope Benedict IX In The Catholic Encyclopedia www.newadvent.org/cathen/0242...
    New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
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    Music by Kevin Macleod

Komentáře • 211

  • @hard2getitrightagain314
    @hard2getitrightagain314 Před 2 lety +31

    The modern renunciation certainly appears more outwardly peaceful, but it is impossible to overstate the amount of intrigue that led up to it.

  • @joycekoch5746
    @joycekoch5746 Před 3 lety +74

    POPE BENEDICT IX was famous for public parties which got more outrageous
    and spectacular with time. He was more interested in being Pope to have fun less than to serve God.

    • @harrisonsamwel3112
      @harrisonsamwel3112 Před 3 lety +12

      there is no serving god in being pope

    • @marcopolo9146
      @marcopolo9146 Před 2 lety +3

      @@harrisonsamwel3112 well said. I agree completely.

    • @popefrancis8153
      @popefrancis8153 Před 2 lety +2

      @@harrisonsamwel3112 he’s literally the vicar of Christ and the head of the church

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Před 2 lety

      Most popes were like that but kept up appearances for the most part.

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Před 2 lety +2

      @@popefrancis8153 not really. It was a created office and Jesus never designated a successor. Most popes were never elected on merit but lineage. Bribery, blackmail and even murder were a norm in electing the (western) Catholic Church.

  • @frste26
    @frste26 Před 2 lety +16

    "in this instance it wasn't so Innocent"
    no in this instance it was Benedict and John.

  • @Monosekist
    @Monosekist Před 2 lety +22

    We are living in an era of "first in a long time" resignations. In addition to the previous Pope, the previous Emperor of Japan resigned a couple of years ago also do to age related factors.

    • @felixniederhauser7799
      @felixniederhauser7799 Před 2 lety +1

      And otherrs had to go,no matter what. Remember John Pail I?
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I

  • @jamescollins4500
    @jamescollins4500 Před 2 lety +3

    I had heard parts of this story before, but lead me more to confusion than understanding. Thanks for the summary,

  • @justincassablanca5479
    @justincassablanca5479 Před 3 lety +13

    Amazing video! Great job!

  • @solomonmatthews7921
    @solomonmatthews7921 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent video, your channel will surely take off.

  • @fiaortega4991
    @fiaortega4991 Před 2 lety +1

    Love your channel! Keep it up man

  • @pranavpothanis6702
    @pranavpothanis6702 Před 3 lety +21

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  • @mbyrd6713
    @mbyrd6713 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow, thanks for the info ❤️

  • @MM22966
    @MM22966 Před 11 měsíci +2

    3:25 "...in this instance, it was not so Innocent..."
    I see what you did there. :)

  • @bryonsmith4384
    @bryonsmith4384 Před 2 lety +14

    We've all seen the CGP Grey video, after all.

  • @suranjanadutta1840
    @suranjanadutta1840 Před 2 lety

    Such an interesting channel....subscribed....

  • @ignacioarellano1834
    @ignacioarellano1834 Před 2 lety +1

    if you make a playlist of the monarcs of rome, omg all the pontifus maximos

  • @AlvinCornelius
    @AlvinCornelius Před 2 lety +1

    That laugh 3:52 was from MJ's Thriller, right?

  • @lmaocetung
    @lmaocetung Před 2 lety +1

    Great video but,...wait...why the hell is there only 15 comments??

  • @rev.paull.vasquez4001
    @rev.paull.vasquez4001 Před 2 lety +14

    It was speculated at the time of Benedict XVI election that he chose the then unpopular name to signal his willingness to resign if necessary (though not to cause havoc by returning multiple times). What do you think?

    • @xELITExKILLAx
      @xELITExKILLAx Před 2 lety +6

      Not saying you’re wrong, but how unpopular could the name be when there were 7 other popes after the IX to use that name?

  • @davidstanton4241
    @davidstanton4241 Před 2 lety +5

    The worst thing about the resignation of benadict 16 is that it was partially resignation

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 2 lety

      Well having two popes is not a new thing. There were even three popes at the same time.

  • @thetrison
    @thetrison Před 2 lety +25

    Imagine Emperor Henry III hearing about Rome and being like "bruh."

    • @SirRyanChadius
      @SirRyanChadius Před 2 lety +1

      Idk that'd be funny I think

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 2 lety +2

      Saying bruh is normie

    • @SirRyanChadius
      @SirRyanChadius Před 2 lety

      @@Perririri normie? That's not a thing I've heard since the battle of '16. Perhaps we should keep it there

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw Před 2 lety +1

      Saying bruh is normie

    • @Nikku4211
      @Nikku4211 Před 2 lety

      @@Perririri It wasn't normie back in the Middle Ages.

  • @jacktribble5253
    @jacktribble5253 Před 2 lety +6

    A peaceful passing doesn't guarantee a better Pope...

  • @jimmyday656
    @jimmyday656 Před 2 lety

    Love the picture of the Bush family, that dynasty is Barbra Bush's. She is a descendant of Franklin Pierce.

  • @dangroom9120
    @dangroom9120 Před 2 lety +2

    No, that would be Alexander VI.
    Most spineless to stop evil when he could have done something was Clement V.

  • @men_del12
    @men_del12 Před 2 lety

    The hat in thumbnail looks good.

  • @camilomadrigal6762
    @camilomadrigal6762 Před 2 lety +4

    Ayy cgp grey fan

  • @derrickstorm6976
    @derrickstorm6976 Před 2 lety +2

    Sylvester III, more like Senator Palpatine

  • @sirpopsticks619
    @sirpopsticks619 Před 2 lety

    I thought there was something wrong with my computer at the 08:00 of the video

  • @ericdoe2318
    @ericdoe2318 Před 2 lety +5

    The definition of nepotism

  • @katsu_papi
    @katsu_papi Před 2 lety +3

    well, surprise!! we evolved as a society and are now much more diplomatic.. .

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před 2 lety

    wikipedia unusual articles

  • @CliffCardi
    @CliffCardi Před 2 lety

    Who else is here from Blue’s Pope Fights from OSP?

  • @johncarsone1579
    @johncarsone1579 Před rokem

    It seems that history is repeating itself. We haven't learned from past mistakes so are doomed to repeat them

  • @szabados1980
    @szabados1980 Před 2 lety

    What... Italy, German in the Mediaeval Ages? Calling an abdication a renunci...ciciatation? I wonder if the rest of your videos are equally bungled.

    • @tronicman1
      @tronicman1 Před 2 lety

      The king of the Germans usually became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German nation, crowned by the Pope of Rome.

  • @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694

    According to this video, he was also the first to sell the papacy.

  • @6williamson
    @6williamson Před 2 lety +3

    this is why we worship God and not the leaders in the Church

    • @bunnygirl8482
      @bunnygirl8482 Před 2 lety +1

      What proof do you have that you don't worship God created by leaders? What if whole bible was made up by generations and generations of edit by these leaders?

    • @middleeasternforhire8985
      @middleeasternforhire8985 Před 2 lety

      @@bunnygirl8482 bibles, Quran, Islam Christianity, Jewish..ect... all designed by some Highe power ( not God ) for control and manipulation of people to not question the creation and the world around them and to distract them compare the ancient Greece, Persia, Rome, Egypt, ect to after when religions appeared! Compare them to medival times! How much humanity was held back until renisance

    • @middleeasternforhire8985
      @middleeasternforhire8985 Před 2 lety

      Sorry of the bad English

  • @ioakimmakis9288
    @ioakimmakis9288 Před 2 lety +21

    one big historical mistake, you said "the Eastern Orthodox Church broke from the Catholic Church", this is wrong. The Church broke in two and not one side from the other side.

    • @Skerdy
      @Skerdy Před 2 lety +4

      Actually not true! The very word "Catholic" nean "Universal" as in united... not saying which side was right or wrong, but the Catholic side wanted to maintain the church united (under Rome of course) while the other refused (cause they didn't thought Rome had the right of supremacy)... valid argument, if you think which (supposedly) virgin claims to be the representative of Christ is valid whatsoever.
      Again, not at all interested in "right" and "wrong", just in accurancy, but the Catholic side wanted unification, while the Orthodox side did not, probably for good reasons, but... that makes the Orthodox Church the very definition of breaking out from a united (Catholic) system...

    • @user-sw5bq3ek8q
      @user-sw5bq3ek8q Před 2 lety +1

      @@Skerdy the terms "catholic" and "orthodox" are technicall terms, they don't represent a theological or dogmatic accuracy. 1) the catholic church may not be a real universal church because the authority of the pope was only on the geographic regions of Europe, the eastern churches have authority on Asia and Africa. The church of Rome had only one patriarch (the pope) bat the eastern churches had 4 patriachets ( Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem). So the eastern churches looks Mach more universal than Rome. 2) at 10th century the eastern empire had a huge population in large cities , in the same era west had no big population. 3) the supremacy of the Rome is recognized by the eastern churches bat eastern traditions is not understanding this supremacy as an authority of the pope over the entire churche, the supremacy in the eastern tradition is understud as a Honore among the pentarchy of the 5 patriarchetes, bat this honore it das'not mean the pope has the right to have opinion or roll in the internal of an other patriarchete.

    • @Episcopalianacolyte
      @Episcopalianacolyte Před 2 lety +1

      You are right that the church split in two. The cause was culture and changing the Nicean Creed as well as papal authority.
      Cuture: the Western churches used Latin in the liturgy while the Eastern Churches used the common languages of the people. The liturgy was different in the west as many churches developed their own styles of worship and prayer (the Dominion Rite, the Liturgy of St. James are two examples). The Eastern churches used The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. The monastics in the West practiced a more communal life while the Eastern monastics were individual in practice only gathering for Liturgy.
      Creed and papal authority: the Roman pontiff inserted the filique into the creed without the approval of a council. The Council of Nicea formulated the creed so a council was needed to change it. Those differences are why the churches never have been in full communion with each other. The West did not unify it's Liturgy untill The Council of Trent 1000 years later.
      The Western churches are not in full communion with each other and sadly remains much less united than those in the East.

    • @GR65330
      @GR65330 Před 2 lety +1

      If you read the early Church fathers, you would see that the Church has always been Catholic united with the Petrine Primacy.

    • @bunnygirl8482
      @bunnygirl8482 Před 2 lety

      Both are wrong. Constantine created the story both believe in which is based on Roman Gods he believed in. I know it's too late to go back but Atleast try to.

  • @jesusexposed1848
    @jesusexposed1848 Před 2 lety

    earth is Heaven I'm not giving my Power up

  • @vaticanjesuitNWO
    @vaticanjesuitNWO Před 2 lety +6

    He was once, twice, three times the Antichrist! And when for a time there were three popes at once, they all hurled anathemas and damnations at one another and calling each other, "Antichrist". All three were correct!!!

    • @dontalkt2meboutheros
      @dontalkt2meboutheros Před 2 lety +1

      😂 the Catholic Church echelons has become exactly the same structure as the Jewish church in the New Testament times, which Jesus denounced.

    • @vaticanjesuitNWO
      @vaticanjesuitNWO Před 2 lety

      @@dontalkt2meboutheros Exactly, and what is even more significant is the fact that the Roman Catholic Priesthood continue to make sacrifices and oblations after Jesus caused all sacrifices and oblations to cease 2000 years ago when He Himself became the sacrifice to end all sacrifices in the midst of the 70th and final week of Daniel's 70 week prophecy as recorded in Daniel 9:24-27. We know that the Jewish hierarchy (priesthood) also continued to make sacrifices after Christ's crucifixion because they didn't acknowledge the blood of Jesus. To put a permanent end to this abomination, God used the Roman Tenth Legion to raze the Temple to the ground and scattered the Jews. Soon, God will do the same to their Roman Catholic equivalents.

    • @dontalkt2meboutheros
      @dontalkt2meboutheros Před 2 lety

      @@vaticanjesuitNWO Remember though, with God anything is possible.

    • @vaticanjesuitNWO
      @vaticanjesuitNWO Před 2 lety

      @@dontalkt2meboutheros ???

    • @dontalkt2meboutheros
      @dontalkt2meboutheros Před 2 lety

      @@vaticanjesuitNWO Seriously? My comment shouldn't render 3 question marks. You should know the depth of that meaning. Surely?

  • @brianskanes1
    @brianskanes1 Před 2 lety +14

    Man how rich was his dad !? That must of been the world's largest bribe

    • @andrewemery4272
      @andrewemery4272 Před 2 lety +1

      Na. Kennedy and Bush familie make this look amateurish.

  • @WhovianDave438
    @WhovianDave438 Před 2 lety

    I assume you’re referring to Catholic Popes of Rome, not Orthodox Popes of Alexandria nor Coptic Popes of Alexandria (nor Orthodox Popes of Rome (prior to 12/25/800)).

  • @mjw907
    @mjw907 Před 2 lety +6

    Benedict IX is still alive today at 94.

    • @johannweber5185
      @johannweber5185 Před 2 lety +13

      XVI

    • @jjayjewel
      @jjayjewel Před 2 lety +14

      The Pope you wrote about, Benedict the 9th, was born in 1012. He is very much not alive today.

  • @samsonwilkinson8090
    @samsonwilkinson8090 Před 2 lety +1

    First you say that popes weren't elected back then but then you say that Gregory was 'elected.'
    What?

  • @KenDelloSandro7565
    @KenDelloSandro7565 Před rokem +1

    I'd rather have a Benedict ix than a Francis i. At least the former was a Catholic.

    • @user-fy7hx9gd6u
      @user-fy7hx9gd6u Před rokem

      Only if what you mean by "was a Catholic" is r*ping animals, which I mean that's not too far off when you see what's done to children

  • @anisothmen3712
    @anisothmen3712 Před rokem

    So much holiness around catholicism -_-

  • @regdor8187
    @regdor8187 Před 2 lety +4

    So much for "installed by God".....Is a wonder that they could walk with those clay feet......

    • @truthreason1206
      @truthreason1206 Před 2 lety

      Actually the Catholic Church doesn’t teach that the Pope is installed by God. The Church believes that God works with who ever the college of cardinals elect.
      Any organization that is over 2,000 years will certainly have very bad leaders at some point.

  • @maximumsecurity9411
    @maximumsecurity9411 Před 2 lety

    They are all the same!
    They should be put the truth out!

  • @abdullahibnhasan1323
    @abdullahibnhasan1323 Před 2 lety +1

    Then, I dont understand why so much of Islamaphobia... even though we love & adore Jesus (PBUH)....

  • @user-sw5bq3ek8q
    @user-sw5bq3ek8q Před 2 lety +1

    eastern church did not split from the catholic, nor even catholics split from the eastern church. that hapen is that the ancient church divited in two fractions

    • @yucol5661
      @yucol5661 Před 2 lety

      Yeah, the garter to you back the herder it is to say that entities like earthen church or Catholic church or “the church” existed. Not lots of official records from a minority religion of slaves and the poor.

    • @bunnygirl8482
      @bunnygirl8482 Před 2 lety

      Some people wanted power so they founded catholic church

  • @malicemizer9596
    @malicemizer9596 Před 2 lety +4

    still corrupted

  • @yank-tc8bz
    @yank-tc8bz Před 2 lety +3

    The Catholic Church broke from the Eastern Orthodox Church which was founded in 33 AD

    • @williemherbert1456
      @williemherbert1456 Před 2 lety

      They're not really broke off from anyone, they were just one of many spurs from the past Christian sect being organized locally and had their own unique creed and canonical Bible in many ancient cities that will continue to live on, and the major archbishop for Christian at that time were consisted of Constantinople, Rome, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, but again there were another in Armenia, Abyssinia, Nubia, Gaelic, etc. Then of course being unified after the Meeting of Niceae in 3rd century, but then again in the midst of East-West Schism in 8-9th century, actually more or less the Catholic Roman Church had been organized as independent archbishop from any influence from Constantinople, and since the beginning they have few exclusive privilege more than other archbishop. For me the correct term might be Latin church and Greek church parting away in opposing direction from being one unified Church.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 2 lety +1

      * 29 AD

    • @jgla4711
      @jgla4711 Před 2 lety +2

      Other way round.

    • @GR65330
      @GR65330 Před 2 lety +1

      A simple read of the Church fathers confirm that the Church has always been Catholic in union with the Petrine Primacy.

    • @bunnygirl8482
      @bunnygirl8482 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, Controlled by powerful people rather than community itself. Catholic church is similer to dictator who can bend history the way he wants. Do people even know real history of jesus and early church?

  • @edwardschneider6396
    @edwardschneider6396 Před 2 lety +2

    "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." ~ Voltaire

    • @polemeros
      @polemeros Před 2 lety

      Check out Mr Voltaire's voluminous writings on the Jews and then ask yourself if you wanna quote him as some clever wise man.

    • @hugsli
      @hugsli Před 2 lety

      @@polemeros that's the most stupid thing I've heard all week

    • @polemeros
      @polemeros Před 2 lety

      @@hugsli How so?

    • @edwardschneider6396
      @edwardschneider6396 Před 2 lety

      @@hugsli You are observant. Voltaire was a Rationalist. He wrote a lot on Judaism because Christianity is a descendant of the Abrahamic bloodline. Just like Islam claims to be.

  • @graduardo
    @graduardo Před 2 lety +6

    Hahahaha..."When the Eastern Orthodox Church broke from the Catholic church".
    Laugh of the month! Thanks for making history funny!

  • @robertd.carver6240
    @robertd.carver6240 Před 2 lety

    The word "willfully" is misused. "Willfully" means arrogantly, stubbornly or hardheadedly, resisting good advice or common sense. "Willingly" isn't quite accurate either, since Benedict was forced to resign. If you're going to use a word, for Chrissakes' use it correctly.

  • @cees1rijp
    @cees1rijp Před 2 lety

    Graaiers, en maar bidden.

  • @mackenzied4598
    @mackenzied4598 Před 2 lety +3

    Well, here in 'MuriKKKa, we now have Oberfuhrer Drumpf...

  • @marianfarkas8116
    @marianfarkas8116 Před 2 lety +1

    the catholic church break up from the orthodox one not viceversa
    read more

    • @truthreason1206
      @truthreason1206 Před 2 lety

      They both broke up from each other. Usually smaller parts break from the big part so the best way to determine who broke from who is to figure out which one had the largest membership at that time.

  • @tjwatts1207
    @tjwatts1207 Před rokem +1

    It's like if Donald Trump was a pope

  • @Jada452
    @Jada452 Před 2 lety

    WOW JUST WOW!!... I know it was most up but not like that lol... tbh I can't say I would not have down the same my self but I would have not been that bad of a pope eathere lol

  • @thli8472
    @thli8472 Před 2 lety +3

    depoped

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 Před 2 lety +4

    He couldn't possibly be the worst Pope in history since the current occupant of Peter's Throne is, hands down, the worst Pope in history!

  • @antoniocarloslemosbasto294

    Not the worst pope in history. The worst is Francis, followed by St. Paul VI

  • @mikemcmullin149
    @mikemcmullin149 Před 2 lety +4

    History keeps showing us how much the see of Rome is unfit to be the seat of the Christian church. :(

    • @popefrancis8153
      @popefrancis8153 Před 2 lety +1

      History keeps on showing us that humans are imperfect

    • @mikemcmullin149
      @mikemcmullin149 Před 2 lety

      @@popefrancis8153 After a long and notorious history, the bishop of Rome 'giving' Ireland to the King of England was the final nail in the coffin. The Sees closing of Scriptorums killed education for the laity, it's replacing of an Abbess with Temporally appointed Abbot's, an abhorrence. Canada's residential school system, just icing on the cake of corruption that includes gross antisemitism. That sir is well beyond simple imperfection.

    • @mikemcmullin149
      @mikemcmullin149 Před 2 lety

      Oh and let's not mention it tolerances for child diddling priests.

    • @popefrancis8153
      @popefrancis8153 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mikemcmullin149 that sir is humanity in a nutshell
      You can’t expect total Godliness when you have humans in control of something

    • @truthreason1206
      @truthreason1206 Před 2 lety

      Any organization that is over 2000 years old will certainly have many bad leaders. Humans are just flawed.

  • @sarto2010
    @sarto2010 Před 2 lety +3

    Worst Pope in history? Francis. By a country mile.

  • @KarmaKraftttt
    @KarmaKraftttt Před 2 lety +3

    A christian (catholic) here and most of us dont even see francis as a pope. 😂😂😂

    • @Ben-fx9kx
      @Ben-fx9kx Před 2 lety +4

      Sure...

    • @KTBFFH8
      @KTBFFH8 Před 2 lety +3

      Do you understand Catholicism? He was chosen by the bishops if you don’t agree then that makes you a christian protestant.

    • @Ben-fx9kx
      @Ben-fx9kx Před 2 lety

      @@KTBFFH8 Technically by the cardinals but yeah you're right

    • @KarmaKraftttt
      @KarmaKraftttt Před 2 lety +3

      @@KTBFFH8 I understand more than you. Yeah he's the pope sure. But just like not all the president of a country's does good stuff always a pope can be the same. Just because he is the pope doesn't mean he cant be wrong. In fact francis is a disgrace to the chair of st.peter.

    • @Simon-1965
      @Simon-1965 Před 2 lety

      Any man that desires to be called holy father is a child of satan. Only God is the Holy Father.

  • @jlouis4407
    @jlouis4407 Před rokem +1

    Francis is the worst, sorry.

  • @royporter_bown1189
    @royporter_bown1189 Před 2 lety +1

    I think pope Francis is the worst pope,he ought to jump ship to the Protestant church instead of ruining the true catholic church