Pope Gregory VI (died 1048), born John Gratian (Latin Johannes Gratianus), was Pope from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046. Gratian, the Archpriest of St. John by the Latin Gate, was a man of great reputation for uprightness of character. He was also the godfather of the boy Pope Benedict IX (1032-1044, 1045, 1047-1048) who was foisted by his powerful family, the Theophylacti, counts of Tusculum, on the Papacy at the age of twenty. Gregory VI himself was taken by the Emperor to Germany in May 1047, where he died in 1048, probably at Cologne.