step in depriving the lower clergy, the nobility, and Roman citizenry from their role in the election of future popes. Additionally, the diocese which Benedict had held as Bishop of Velletri was given in administration to the Bishop of Ostia in the bull of Pope Alexander II "Si Extraneis", dated 11 June 1065. Ca. 1150, Pope Eugenius III permanently combined the two dioceses into one. Benedict X was considered a legitimate pope, not an anti-pope, down until the time of Pope Honorius III in the thirteenth century. The Liber Pontificalis assigns him a reign of eight months and twenty days, which would be 5 April to 24 December 1058. Nicholas II was consecrated on 24 January 1059. See also Papal selection before 1059 References Bibliography Kelly, J. N. D. and Walsh, M. J. (2010). Oxford Dictionary of Popes. second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P. 151. External links Capitani, Ovidio (1966). "BENEDETTO X, antipapa." Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 8 (Treccani: 1966). Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain 1000s births 11th-century antipopes 11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Benedict 11th-century deaths Antipopes Burials at Sant'Agnese fuori le mura Cardinal-bishops of Velletri 11th-century Italian nobility People of medieval Rome