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Your answer was: Pope Benedict IX. |
Answer: Prior to 1059, the selection of the pope, the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, varied throughout history. Popes were often appointed by their predecessors or by political rulers. While some kind of election often characterized the procedure, an election that included meaningful participation of the laity was rare, especially as the popes' claims to temporal power solidified into the Papal States. Pope Benedict IX was the youngest pope in history and still the only man to wear the title more than just once. It is said that he was as young as 11- 20 years old when he became the 145th pope in 1032 and served for over 12 years. How he became pope was questionable and corrupt. His father won his election through the age-old tradition of bribery. Benedict was the first pope rumored to have been primarily homosexual. Pope Victor III, in his third book of Dialogues, referred to "his rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts of violence and sodomy. His life as a pope was so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it." In September 1044, opposition to Benedict IX's dissolute lifestyle forced him out of Rome and Sylvester III was elected to replace him. Once Benedict got a taste of power, it was too hard to let it go! He became pope again in 1045, but as the 147th pope he only served for 52 days before he was deposed. But that did not stop him. He became the 150th pope on 1047. As his third time as pope, he served for 252 days before being deposed and excommunicated. 'Pope Benedict IX' on en.Wikipedia.org 
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