Pope John XIV, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pope John XIV

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Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 20-Aug-0984

Profession: Catholic priest, cleric

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Pope John XIV (Latin: Ioannes XIV; died 20 August 984) was Pope from December 983 to his death in 984.
He was the successor to Pope Benedict VII. John XIV was born at Pavia, and before his elevation to the papal chair was imperial Archchancellor for Italy of Emperor Otto II.
His earliest document in that capacity dates from 28 December 980, and the latest from 27 August 983.
Queen Adelheid of Burgundy, the widow of Otto I, and Queen Theophanu, the widow of Otto II, on behalf of Otto III as his regents, wished to make Majolus of Cluny pope in 983, but he refused, and Pietro Canepanova, Bishop of Pavia, was chosen instead.His original name was Pietro Canepanova, but he took the name John XIV to avoid being linked to St.
Peter himself. Otto II died shortly after his election, his heir Otto III, being only 3 years old and unable to protect John's position as Pope.
Antipope Boniface VII (974, 984–985), on the strength of the popular feeling against the new Pope, returned from Constantinople and placed John XIV in prison in the Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from starvation or poison.There has been considerable confusion of the number of Popes John.
There was only the one John XIV.
However, by the 13th century, clerical authorities in the Vatican came to wrongly believe that there were two John XIVs and began to double-count John XIV accordingly.
This led to a pope calling himself John XXI, instead of John XX, in 1276.