Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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Leo VIII

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132nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 964 - 965. Appointed antipope by Emperor Otto in 963 in opposition to John XII and Benedict V. He became the true Pope after Benedict V was deposed.

Urban II

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159th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1088 - 1099. Started the First Crusade. Urban II's crusading movement took its first public shape at the Council of Piacenza, where, in March 1095, ...

Paschall II

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160th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1099 - 1118. His reign of almost twenty years was exceptionally long for a Pope of the Middle Ages. Pope Paschal II ordered the building of the a ...

162nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1119 - 1124. His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat of Worms (in 1122). Callixtus ...

Honorius II

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163rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1124 - 1130. His pontificate was concerned with ensuring that the privileges the Roman Church had obtained through the Concordat of Worms were preserved ...

Gelasius II

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161st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1118 - 1119. Shortly after his unanimous election to succeed Pope Paschal II in 1118, he was seized by Cencio II Frangipane, a partisan of Holy Roman ...

Innocent II

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164th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1130 - 1143. He organised the Second Lateran council of 1139, at which King Roger II of Sicily, Innocent II's most uncompromising foe, was ...