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* January &ndash; Pope [[Pope John IX|John IX]] is [[Consecration|consecrated]] and succeeds [[Pope Theodore II|Theodore II]] as the 116th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. His rival [[Pope Sergius III|Serguis III]] (a [[Spoleto|Spoletan]] ally of Lambert II) is excommunicated and takes refuge at the court of Adalbert II. 
* John IX holds councils at [[Rome]] and [[Ravenna]] to rehabilitate the late Pope [[Pope Formosus|Formosus]]. He condemns the [[Cadaver Synod]] of the late Pope [[Pope Stephen VI|Stephen VI]], and restores the clergymen who were deposed by Stephen's faction.</onlyinclude>