Biography Giovanni, Bishop of Velletri,Kehr states that Velletri was never one of the seven bishoprics which carried the title of cardinal. Giovanni must have been a bishop of Velletri who was created a cardinal in a separate action. was created a cardinal by Pope Leo IX in 1050. He was highly esteemed, however, by those who wanted to reform the Church, and was one of five men proposed by Cardinal Frederick of Lorraine when consulted during the summer of 1057 concerning a possible successor to Pope Victor II, whom Frederick himself succeeded as Pope Stephen IX. Pope Victor had died at Arezzo on 28 July 1057, where he had just held a synod, but his successor was elected in Rome, in the Basilica of S. Pietro in vincoli, on 2 August 1057 and consecrated the next day. Gregorovius, p. 100.
Biography Giovanni, Bishop of Velletri,Kehr states that Velletri was never one of the seven bishoprics which carried the title of cardinal. Giovanni must have been a bishop of Velletri who was created a cardinal in a separate action. was created a cardinal by Pope Leo IX in 1050. He was highly esteemed, however, by those who wanted to reform the Church, and was one of five men proposed by Cardinal Frederick of Lorraine when consulted during the summer of 1057 concerning a possible successor to Pope Victor II, whom Frederick himself succeeded as Pope Stephen IX. Pope Victor had died at Arezzo on 28 July 1057 where he had just held a synod, but his successor was elected in Rome, in the Basilica of S. Pietro in vincoli, on 2 August 1057 and consecrated the ,next day. Gregorovius, p. 100.