The lay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protonotary_apostolic" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Protonotary apostolic">papal protonotary</a> is elected pope and takes the name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope Leo VIII">Leo VIII</a>, being consecrated on 6 December after ordination.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_4#cite_note-2" id="mwHA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol" id="CITEREFGregorovius1903">Gregorovius, Ferdinand (1903). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tLk4AAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA348" id="mwBts" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBtw">History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages</i></a>. Vol.<span id="mwBt0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>III: AD 800–1002. Translated by Gustavus W. Hamilton (2nd English<span id="mwBt4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). London: Bell. p.<span id="mwBt8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>348.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwBuA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=History+of+the+City+of+Rome+in+the+Middle+Ages&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=348&amp;rft.edition=2nd+English&amp;rft.pub=Bell&amp;rft.date=1903&amp;rft.aulast=Gregorovius&amp;rft.aufirst=Ferdinand&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtLk4AAAAIAAJ%26pg%3DPA348&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+4"></span><link about="#mwt17" href="./Category:CS1:_long_volume_value" id="mwBuE" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>