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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia and other sources, Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made pontiff, although some sources claim 11 or 12.
He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and allegedly had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely orthodox.
St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as " feasting on immorality "; the anti-papal historian Ferdinand Gregorovius wrote that in Benedict, " a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest ... occupied the chair of Peter and profaned the sacred mysteries of religion by his insolent courses.
" The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him " a disgrace to the Chair of Peter.
" The first pope said to have been primarily homosexual, he was said to have held orgies in the Lateran palace.

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