Pope John XV is elected circa August 5, 985 following the death of the antipope Boniface VII. He succeeded Pope John XIV, whose reign was cut short in 984 by imprisonment and murder. He was the first Pope to perform a solemn, official canonization of a saint (Ulrich of Augsburg). More
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