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 ...

Victor II

People; Popes

153rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1055 - 1057. Although there have been eight German Popes, Victor II is one of only three Popes from the territory of present-day Germany, the others ...

Stephen IX

People; Popes

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 ...

Nicholas II

People; Popes

155th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1058 - 1061. Nicholas' papacy dealt largely against the claim of antipope Benedict X, leading to the formation of alliances with the Normans. Nicholas ...

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 endeavoring to suppress ...

St Gregory VII

People; Popes

157th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1073 - 1085. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Holy ...

Victor III

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158th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1086 - 1087. Victor III birth name was Dauferius Epifani. Victor had little desire to become pope, he only submitted after the cardinals proclaimed him ...