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Pope Clement II (Latin: Clemens II; born Suidger von Morsleben; died 9 October 1047), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047. He was the first in a series of reform-minded popes from Germany.
Clement II was the pope from 1046 to 1047. Of noble birth, he was bishop of Bamberg, in Germany, when in 1046 he accompanied the German king Henry III on an expedition to Italy, where Henry found three rival popes (Sylvester III, Benedict IX, and Gregory VI), supported by rival Roman families,
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Pope Clement II was the 149th Roman Catholic pope and served from 1046 to 1047. He was the second man to take the papal name of Clement, as well as being the second pope to be born in Germany. This article looks at the life of Clement before and after his time as pope.
Clement II, POPE (SUIDGER ), date of birth unknown; enthroned December 25, 1046; d. October 9, 1047. In the autumn of 1046 the King of Germany, Henry III, crossed the Alps at the head of a large army and accompanied by a brilliant retinue of the secular and ecclesiastical princes of the empire, for the twofold purpose of receiving the imperial ...
Clement II is the first of several "German" popes who pushed the aims of ecclesiastical reform in the city of Rome. He held a reforming synod in January 1047, issuing decrees against simony and accompanied Henry III to southern Italy.
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Clement II 149th Pope of the Catholic Church Beginning Pontificate: 24.XII.1046: End Pontificate: 9.X.1047: Secular Name: Suidger, Graf von Morsleben und Hornburg ...
Learn about the life and reign of Pope Clement II, who was elected in 1046 with the support of Emperor Henry III. Find out how he tried to reform the Church and deal with the simony and schism that plagued Rome.
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