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Pope John XII
Pope John XII was bishop of Rome in the mid-tenth century. In 962 CE he crowned Otto I of Saxony as emperor. Historians generally treat this coronation as the functional founding of the Holy Roman Empire.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pope John XII. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pope-john-xii
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