Benedict V becomes Pope on May 22, 964 after being elected by the Romans following Pope John XII's death. Opposed by Emperor Otto I who supported Leo VIII, he reigned briefly until June 964 when Benedict was deposed, demoted to deacon, and exiled to Hamburg, where he died in 965.
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