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209. The Dark Age of the Papacy

209. The Dark Age of the Papacy

Update: 2025-08-03
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The 10th and 11th centuries saw a sting of many short papacies, as secular rulers added and removed pontiffs to impose their will on the papacy.

Among these popes were some of the most wretched men to sit in the chair of St Peter, which earned the era the title the Saeculum Obscurum, or "dark age" of the papacy.


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209. The Dark Age of the Papacy

209. The Dark Age of the Papacy

Scott Schulze & Kevin Schmiesing