Benedict

the name of fourteen popes: B. I. , from 574 to 575; B. II. , from 684 to 685; B. III. , from 855 to 858; B. IV. , from 900 to 907; B. V. , from 964 to 965; B. VI. , from 972 to 974; B. VII. , from 975 to 984; B. VIII. , from 1012 to 1024; extended the territory of the Church by conquest, and effected certain clerical reforms; B. IX. , from 1033 to 1048, a licentious man, and deposed; B. X. , from 1058 to 1059; B. XI. , from 1303 to 1304; B. XII. , from 1334 to 1342; B. XIII. , from 1724 to 1730; B. XIV. , from 1740 to 1758. Of all the popes of this name it would seem there is only one worthy of special mention.