<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sergius_III" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope Sergius III">Sergius III</a> is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope">papacy</a> from the deposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Christopher" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Antipope Christopher">antipope Christopher</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_29#cite_note-1" id="mwFA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFChisholm1911"><a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwB4E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwB4I" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Christophorus"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Christophorus" id="mwB4M" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Christophorus"<span id="mwB4Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. <i id="mwB4U"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwB4Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol.<span id="mwB4c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>6 (11th<span id="mwB4g" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwB4k" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>295. <q id="mwB4o">In January 904 [Christophorus] was treated in the same fashion by his competitor, Sergius III., who had him strangled.</q></cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwB4s" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Christophorus&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.pages=295&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+29"></span></span>