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{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 913 to 914}}{{Other uses|Lando (disambiguation)}}

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Lando (also known as Landus){{efn|In the second declension. Although sometimes less common in Medieval Latin, names ending in -o in Latin tend to be written in third declension (e.g. Landonis, Platonis in genitive case).}}{{Citation | last = Platina | first = Bartolomeo | author-link = Bartolomeo Platina | title = The Lives of the Popes from the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII | publisher = Griffith Farran & Co. | location = London | pages = 245 | volume = I | year= 1479 | url =weblink | access-date= 2013-04-25}} was the pope from {{circa}} September 913 to his death {{circa}} March 914.Pietro Fedele, "Ricerche per la storia di Rome e del papato al. sec. X", Archivo della Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria, 33 (1910): 177–247.{{CathEncy|wstitle=Pope Lando}}J. N. D. Kelly and Michael Walsh, "Lando", The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 120. His short pontificate fell during an obscure period in papal and Roman history, the so-called Saeculum obscurum (904–964).According to the Liber pontificalis, Lando was born in the Sabina (Papal States), and his father was a wealthy Lombard count named Taino{{efn|Ferdinand Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1897), Vol. 3, p. 238, gives his father's name as Raino.}} from Fornovo.Umberto Longo, "Landone, papa", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 63 (2004).Harald Zimmerman, "Lando", in Philippe Levillain, ed., The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, Gaius–Proxies (New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 896. The Liber also claims that his pontificate lasted only four months and twenty-two days. A different list of popes, appended to a continuation of the Liber pontificalis at the Abbey of Farfa and quoted by Gregory of Catino in his Chronicon Farfense in the twelfth century, gives Lando a pontificate of six months and twenty-six days. This is closer to the duration recorded by Flodoard of Reims, writing in the tenth century, of six months and ten days. The end of his pontificate can be dated to between 5 February 914, when he is mentioned in a document of Ravenna, and late March or early April, when his successor, John X, was elected.Lando is thought to have been the candidate of Count Theophylact I of Tusculum and Senatrix Theodora, who were the most powerful couple in Rome at the time."Lando", The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, ed. J. N. D. Kelly, (Oxford University Press, 1988), 121. The Theophylacti controlled papal finances through their monopoly of the office of vestararius, and also controlled the Roman militia and Senate. During Lando's reign, Arab raiders, operating from their stronghold on the Garigliano river, destroyed the cathedral of San Salvatore in Vescovio in his native diocese.Roger Collins, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy, (Basic Books, 2009), 175. No document of Lando's chancery has survived. The only act of his reign that is recorded is a donation to the diocese of Sabina mentioned in a judicial act of 1431. Lando made the large personal gift in order to restore the cathedral of San Salvatore so that the clergy who were then living at Toffia could return.Lando was the last pope with a unique name and without regnal number until Pope Francis in 2013.BOOK,weblink New World Pope: Pope Francis and the Future of the Church, Michael L., Budde, June 2, 2017, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 9781498283724, Google Books, BOOK,weblink Historical Dictionary of Catholicism, William J., Collinge, August 15, 2021, Rowman & Littlefield, 9781538130186, Google Books,

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