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  ADRIAN - LoveToKnow Article on ADRIAN
, pope from 867 to 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced age.
Rid of the affair of Lothair, king of Lorraine, by the death of that prince (869), he endeavoured in vain to mediate between the Prankish princes with a view to assuring to the emperor, Louis II., the heritage of the king of Lorraine.
At this council Adrian was represented by legates, who presided at the condemnation of Photius, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of the jurisdiction over the Bulgarian converts.
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 Pope Adrian II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adrian II (also known as Hadrian II), (792–872), pope from 867 to 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced age.
Lothar, king of Lorraine, died in 869, leaving Adrian to mediate between the Frankish kings with a view to assuring to the emperor, Louis II, the heritage of the king of Lorraine.
At this council Adrian was represented by legates, who presided at the condemnation of Photius as a heretic, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of the jurisdiction over the Bulgarian church.
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 Adrian II Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adrian II, pope from 867 to 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced age.
He maintained, but with less energy, the attitude of his predecessor Nicholas I. Lothar, king of Lorraine, died in 869, leaving Adrian II to mediate between the Frankish kings with a view to assuring to the emperor, Louis II, the heritage of the king of Lorraine.
Like his predecessor Nicholas I, Adrian II was forced to submit in temporal affairs, to the interference of the emperor, Louis II, who placed him under the surveillance of Arsenius, bishop of Orta, his confidential adviser, and Arsenius's son Anastasius, the librarian.
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 Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Paul II was succeeded by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who had led the funeral mass for John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II Since the death of John Paul II, a number of clergy at the Vatican have been referring to the late pontiff as "John Paul the Great"—only the fourth pope to be so acclaimed, and the first since the first millennium.
Pope John Paul II could not escape the controversy of the involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime of World War II in his relations with the Serb Orthodox Church.
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 ipedia.com: Pope Adrian IV Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adrian IV, born Nicholas Breakspear was pope from 1154 to 1159.
Adrian crowned the emperor at St Peter's Basilica on June 18, 1155, a ceremony which so incensed the Romans that the pope had to leave the city, not returning until November 1156.
Barbarossa was infuriated by the suggestion that he was dependent on the pope, and in the storm which ensued the legates were glad to escape with their lives, and the incident at length closed with a letter from the pope, declaring that by beneficium he meant merely bonum factum or "a good deed," the coronation.
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 Pope Paul VI The World Pays Its Tribute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Honorius I was not only condemned by the Council of Constantinople in 681 because he "followed the wicked teaching of the heretics" but the acts of the Council were signed by the papal legate and duly authenticated by Pope Leo II.
Pope Paul VI constantly sought to promote and deepen mutual understanding among the churches; this was evinced by his great enthusiasm for the establishment of a Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.
Pope Paul VI understood his ministry as an instrument in the service of peace in the world and indefatigably recalled the duty of the church and indeed of every member of the church to contribute to overcoming the menace of war.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Bl. Urban II
In March, 1096, the pope held a synod at Tours and confirmed the excommunication of the French king, which certain members of the French episcopate had endeavoured to remove.
In October, 1098, the pope held a council at Bari with the intention of reconciling the Greeks and Latins on the question of the filioque; one hundred and eighty bishops attended, amongst whom was St. Anselm of Canterbury, who had fled to Urban to lay before him his complaints against the Red King.
Amongst the figures painted in the apse of the oratory built by Calixtus II in the Lateran Palace is that of Urban II with the words sanctus Urbanus secundus beneath it.
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 Marinus II --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was a deacon when, in 869, Pope Adrian II sent him as emissary to the fourth Council of Constantinople, which condemned Patriarch St. Photius of Constantinople for defending Eastern traditions against the Roman Church.
Bhaskara II was born in 1114 in Biddur, India.
Mohammad II (Mehmed the Conqueror) (1432–81), Ottoman sultan, born in Adrianople (now Edirne); during rule (1444–46 and 1451–81), captured Constantinople and thus completed the Ottoman destruction of the Byzantine Empire; fourth son of Murad II; restored and repopulated Constantinople after capture in 1453; reorganized Ottoman administration, codified laws, encouraged scholarship...
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 Courtly Lives - Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Adrian (1459-1523) was born in Utrecht, and was elected pope on January 9, 1522.
Adrian was the son of a carpenter, who worked to reform the Church Administration and to unite Europe together to stop the Turkish Empire from expanding.
Pope John Paul II was shot by a Turkish gunmen, Mehmet Ali Agca, on May 13, 1981.
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 Lothair II of Lotharingia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lothair, whose desire for the divorce was prompted by his affection for a certain Waldrada, put away Teutberga; but Hucbert took up arms on her behalf, and after she had submitted successfully to the ordeal of water, Lothair was compelled to restore her in 858.
Still pursuing his purpose, he won the support of his brother, the emperor Louis II, by a cession of lands, and obtained the consent of the local clergy to the divorce and to his marriage with Waldrada, which took place in 862.
Placing a favourable interpretation upon the words of the pope, he had set out on the return journey, when he was seized with fever and died at Piacenza on the August 8, 869.
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 Encyclopedia: Pope Adrian II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church.
The name Louis II is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor (825-875, reigning 850(855)-875) Louis the German, (804 - 876, ruler of Eastern Francia from 817-876) Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia (France) (846-879, reigned 877-879...
Louis II, (825 – 875), Holy Roman Emperor (sole ruler 855 – 875), eldest son of the emperor Lothair I, became the designated king of Italy in 839, and taking up his residence in that country was crowned king at Rome by Pope Sergius II on June 15, 844.
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 Interesting Facts - Popes
The son of Pope Hormisdas (who was pope from 514 to 523), Silverius, was himself elected pope in 536.
Pope Adrian II (also known as Hadrian II), pope from 867 to 872, was the last married pope.
Pope Benedict IV was probably only around 12 years old when he was made pope in 1032.
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 In Memory of Pope John Paul II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope John Paul II was certainly one of the best known and most revered men on earth.
Pope John Paul the Second was a model of Christian principle, kind, humble, generous and forgiving.
He was the first Polish pope and also the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1522.
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 Pope Adrian VI
(Adrian Dedel, not Boyens, probably not Rodenburgh, 1459-1523), pope from 1522 to 1523, was born at Utrecht in March 1459, and studied under the Brethren of the Common Life either at Zwolle or Deventer.
As a peacemaker among Christian princes, whom he hoped to unite in a protective war against the Turk, he was a failure: in August 1523 he was forced openly to ally himself with the Empire, England, Venice, etc., against France; meanwhile in 1522 the sultan Suleiman I had conquered Rhodes.
Adrian VI was the last non-Italian pope until Pope John Paul II was elected in 1978.
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 Adrian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adrian III - Pope from 884 to 885
Adrian IV - Pope from 1154 to 1159
Adrian VI - Pope from 1522 to 1523
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Adrian II
Adrian was now seventy-five years old, and twice before had refused the dignity.
Adrian saved the western Slavs from a similar fate by seconding the efforts of the saintly brothers, Cyril and Methodius.
Adrian died towards the close of the year 872.
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 Pope John Paul II's Achievements -- CBN.com Spiritual Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope John Paul II was the longest serving pope of the 20th century.
Adrian VI (1522-23) was born in the Netherlands.
Pope John Paul II declared 482 saints during his papacy -- more than the number declared by all the popes in the last 500 years combined.
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 Macedonia for the Macedonians
Pope Adrian II detained Methody in Rome until the end of 870 when in accordance with the decision of the Council of Constantinople of that year, the Latin clergy were expelled.
In order to prevent that which happened in Panonia, Pope Adrian II fulfilled the wishes of Kotsel and appointed St. Methody, the Bishop of the re-established Sirmo-Panonian Bishopric.
Released from prison through the intervention of Pope John VIII, St. Methody returned to Panonia and thereafter through the wishes of the Moravians was appointed by the Pope to be Archbishop of Moravia and Panonia.
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 Pope John Paul II Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope John Paul II stayed in close touch with all his friends especially the ones from his home country, Poland.
Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to walk into a Mosque.
Pope John Paul II had many childhood friends who were Jewish.
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 AllRefer.com - Adrian IV, pope (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
Pope Eugene III made him cardinal bishop of Albano and sent him to Scandinavia to organize the church.
Adrian, forced by imperial intrigues to leave Rome, died before he could pronounce sentence.
The historicity of Adrian's donation of Ireland, as a papal fief, to Henry II of England is the subject of scholarly dispute.
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 Pope John Paul II
John Paul II (born 18 May 1920) was born as Karol Jozef Wojtyla (pronounced Voy-tee-wah) in Wadowice[?], Poland.
When on October 16, 1978, at age 58, he succeeded Pope John Paul I he fulfilled a prophesy made to him decades earlier by Padre Pio[?] that he would one day be pope.
The youngest pope since Pope Pius IX was elected in 1846, John Paul entered the papacy as an exceptionally healthy relatively young man who unlike previous popes swam and skied.
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 Pope John Paul II's Achievements -- CBN.com Spiritual Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope John Paul II ranks third among all popes, in years as pontiff.
Before that, Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) was the last pontiff to leave Italy -- and that was because he was sent into exile by Napoleon in 1812.
Pope John Paul II beatified 1,338 people during his papacy.
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 Catholic Pages Directory: » Church Documents » ECUMENICAL COUNCILS
Decrees of Church Councils The decrees of all of the Church's Ecumenical Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II.
Council of Vienne Convened in 1311 by Clement V. The synod dealt with the crimes and errors imputed to the Knights Templars, the Fraticelli, the Beghards, and the Beguines, with projects of a new crusade, the reformation of the clergy, and the teaching of Oriental languages.
History and Text : Nicaea II Convened in 787 by Emperor Constantine VI and his mother Irene, under Pope Adrian I, and was presided over by the legates of Pope Adrian; it regulated the veneration of holy images.
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 About Our Saints
Some in the Church at the time did not approve of the use of a native language in church liturgy.The two brothers were called to Rome to have a meeting with the Pope.
Pope Adrian II showed gratitude and admiration for the two missionaries.
On December 31, 1980, Pope John Paul II declared St. Cyril and St. Methodius co-patrons of Europe along with St. Benedict.
www.cyrilandmethod.org /saints.htm   (271 words)

  
 UNCORRECTED PROOF OF SENATE JOURNAL FOR 04/04/05
Pope John Paul II died on Saturday, April 2 at age 84, ending one of the most influential papacies in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
John Paul II was the first Polish pope and also the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1522.
Pope John Paul II served for more than 26 years and was the most traveled pope visiting more than 120 countries during his stewardship of the Catholic Church.
www.mass.gov /legis/journal/sj040405.htm   (422 words)

  
 Our Slavonic Rite
Cyril and Methodius, since they brought with them the holy relics of the martyred Pope St. Clement, were received by Pope Adrian II (867-872) with great honor and joy.
Having heard the arguments in favor of the Slavonic Liturgy, Pope Adrian personally blessed the Slavonic Books and placed them on the altar, while the missionary brothers, in his presence, chanted the Divine Liturgy in Slavonic.
These two papal documents, the breve of Pope Adrian II "Gloria in Excelsis", issued in 869, and the bull of Pope John VIII "Industriae Tuae", issued in 880, are the canonical basis of our Slavonic Rite, which was initiated by the Apostles of the Slavs, SS.
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 The New Pope Benedict XVI » 2005 » April » 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The new Pope, who turned 78 last Saturday, was the longtime prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under his predecessor John Paul II.
In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia.
At 78 years of age, he is the oldest pope elected in 275 years, and is the first Pontiff of German descent since the Dutch Adrian VI (1522-1523).
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 Our Sunday Visitor's Faith Matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Owing to the continued ambitions and jealousy of the German bishops, in 870 Methodius was deposed and imprisoned by King Louis II, also known as Louis the German (r.
He convinced the pope of his orthodoxy and received new permission to use the Slavonic language in the liturgy.
Pope John Paul II on December 31, 1980, proclaimed them co-patrons of Europe, with St. Benedict.
www.osv.com /faithmatters/LeaderGuide/stcyril.asp   (376 words)

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