Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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152nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1049 - 1054. He was a German aristocrat and a powerful secular ruler of central Italy while holding the papacy. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman ...

Stephen IX

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154th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1057 - 1058.He enforced the policies of the Gregorian Reform as to clerical celibacy, was planning for the expulsion of the Normans from Italy and the ...

Alexander II

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156th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1061 - 1073. He was born in Milan. As Anselm I, bishop of Lucca, he had been an energetic coadjutor with Hildebrand of Sovana in endeavouring to ...

Damasus II

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151st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1048 -1048. A native of Bavaria, he was the third German to become Pope and had one of the shortest papal reigns.

St Leo IV

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103rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 847 - 855. He was unanimously chosen to succeed Sergius II. His pontificate was chiefly distinguished by his efforts to repair the damage done by the ...

Sergius II

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102nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 844 -847. During his pontificate Rome was ravaged, and the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul were sacked by Saracens, who also assaulted Porto and ...

Greogory IV

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101st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 827 - 844. Gregory contributed to the architectural development of Rome (he rebuilt the Basilica di San Marco) and promoted the celebration of the feast ...