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| | Pope Clement XI |
 | | Clement XI, given name Giovanni Francesco Albani, pope from 1700 to 1721, was born in Urbino, on the 22nd of July 1649, received an extraordinary education in letters, theology and law, filled various important offices in the Curia, and finally, on the 23rd of November 1700, succeeding Pope Innocent XII. |
 | | Clement reaffirmed the infallibility of the pope, in matters of fact (1705), and, in 1713, issued the bull Unigenitus, condemning 101 Jansenistic propositions extracted from the Moral Reflections of Pasquier Quesnel. |
 | | The rejection of this bull by certain bishops led to a new party division and a further prolonging of the controversy. |
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