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  Pope John VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The son of one Plato and allegeldy born in Rossano, Calabria, John VII was in good relationships with the Lombards, then ruling much of Italy.
There are several monuments of John in the Church of St Maria Antiqua at the foot of the Palatine Hill; others were formerly in the chapel of the Virgin, built by him in the basilica of St Peter and still visible in the grottoes under the basilica.
John VII died in 707 and was buried in St. Peter's.
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 Pope John VII
Though John was a man of learning and eloquence, and though he was remarkable for his filial affection and piety, he was of a timorous disposition.
John is credited with having prevailed upon the Anglo-Saxon clergy resident in Rome to renounce their secular style of dress, and with having written to those in England bidding them follow this example.
John died in the palace he had built near the Palatine, and was buried in the oratory he had erected in St. Peter's.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/john_vii,pope.html   (499 words)

  
 Pope St. Gregory VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pope Gregory VI called him to Rome to reform the Abbey of St. Paul's-Outside-the-Walls, which was suffering from a relaxation of its rule.
The pontificate of St. Gregory VII was to be one long struggle for the freedom of the Church and the reform of the clergy.
The congregation at Cluny was the army of the pope and the mainstay of the Church.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1985_May/Pope_St_Saint_Gregory_VII.htm   (1626 words)

  
 Pope John VIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John VIII was pope from 872 to 882.
John later confirmed the permission to use Slavonic that had been originally granted by Pope Adrian II, John's predecessor.
According to the legend of Pope Joan, a woman named Joan reigned as Pope under the name of John VIII earlier in the 9th century; the legend says that she was erased from the historical record when her identity was discovered.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_John_VIII   (229 words)

  
 Pope John IX
Pope John IX Not only is the date of John's birth unknown, but the date of his election as pope, and that of his death are alike uncertain.
The barbarous custom of plundering the palaces of bishops or popes on their death was ordered to be put down both by the spiritual and temporal authorities.
A synod which John held at Ravenna decreed that steps should be taken to put an end to the deeds of violence which were being perpetrated everywhere.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/john_ix,pope.html   (460 words)

  
 JOHN VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Now Justinian sent Pope John VII copies of the decrees and a letter in which he urged the Pope to hold a synod and decide which decrees he could confirm and which he would reject.
Pope John VII had to rebuke them for their love of the gay clothes of laymen.
John seems to have inherited from his father, the curator of the palace an interest in restoring buildings.
www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp86.htm   (420 words)

  
 Phoenician Popes
This stand of the Pope Sergius inspired one of his successors, Pope Benedictus XIV, to say: �At the end of the seventh century, while the heresy was saddening the Patriarchy of Antioch, the Maronites, to protect themselves, decided to choose a patriarch approved by Their Holinessess�.
As for the pope Constantine I, he died on the ninth of April of 715 and was buried in Saint Peter�s Cathedral in the Vatican.
When the Pope�s representative was on his way to Constantinople to hand the Emperor the decisions taken by the Council, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Byzantine army, as were the other representatives of the Pope, in different Italian cities, where they were sent to publish the decisions taken by the Council.
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 Clement VII (pope) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Clement VII (pope) (1478-1534), pope (1523-1534), whose pontificate was marked by an unsuccessful attempt to end the Reformation in Germany and by...
Pope : antipopes : Clement VII: Clement VII (antipope)
The title of Pope is given to the bishop of Rome who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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 John - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John the Apostle, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus.
John the Evangelist, to whom the Gospel of John is attributed, often along with 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation.
A Dear John letter is a correspondence in which a woman informs her fiancé or boyfriend of her intention to sever their romantic relationship, typically in situations where the man is stationed, as with the military, in a distant location for a period of time.
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 Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland, a small city just outside Cracow.
Pope John Paul II, like many Popes before him, is generally considered by Catholics to be the sovereign "Vicar of Christ," Christ's representative here on the earth.
Pope John Paul II is no doubt a wonderful, visionary man. Before him, there have been saintly Popes and wicked Popes alike.
www.allaboutreligion.org /pope-john-paul-ii.htm   (905 words)

  
 Pope John XV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John XV, Roman Catholic Pope from 985 to 996, generally recognized as the successor of Boniface VII, the pope John who was said to have ruled for four months after Pope John XIV, being now omitted by the best authorities.
John XV was the son of Leo, a Roman presbyter.
On her departure the pope, whose venality and nepotism had made him very unpopular with the citizens, died of fever before the arrival of Otto III, who elevated his own kinsman Bruno to the papal dignity under the name of Pope Gregory V.
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 General John Pope
John Pope, born 18 March 18 - at Louisville, KY., graduated from the Military Academy in 1842 and joined the Topographical Engineers.
After shakedown General John Pope sailed for Newport News 5 September 1943 with over 6,000 troops and civilians bound for Greenock, Scotland; and, after disembarking her passengers there, returned to Norfolk 25 September.
Finally, missions accomplished, General John Pope departed San Francisco 15 May bound for New York, where she decommissioned 12 June 1946 and was returned to WSA.
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Pope John Paul II was the longest serving pope of the 20th century.
Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) was the previous record-holder with five foreign trips.
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.
www.cbn.com /spirituallife/ChurchAndMinistry/PopeJohnPaulAchievements.asp   (337 words)

  
 General John Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Pope, born 18 March 1822 at Louisville, Ky., graduated from the Military Academy in 1842 and joined the Topographical Engineers.
General John Pope; T. General John Pope (AP-110) was launched under a Maritime Commission contract 21 March 1943 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N. sponsored by Mrs.
In the months that followed, General John Pope sailed in support of the giant amphibious offensive on New Guinea's northern coast, spearheaded by Rear Admiral Barbey's famed VII Amphibious Force.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g3/general_john_pope.htm   (806 words)

  
 Pope “Joan,” the Female Pope
Pope Joan’s existence is given perhaps its most persuasive corroboration by Platina, a serious historian, secretary to a reigning Pope, and librarian to the Vatican, who felt bound to include Pope Joan in the Canon of the Popes.
When Pope Joan was first declared mythical almost 750 years after her assassination, the list of the Popes needed to be subjected to a bit of creative book-keeping in order to erase this blot on the record of the Papacy.
Pope who was entered in the List of the Popes as “Pope John IX”.
www.hypatia-lovers.com /AncientWays/section15.html   (1107 words)

  
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The title of universal bishop occurs as early as the eighth century; and in 1413 the faculty of Paris rejected the proposition of John Hus that the pope was not universal bishop (Natalis Alexander, 'Hist.
He brought a letter from the pope demanding his restoration, and this was accepted as decisive by the council It should be observed that there can be no question here of the pope employing prerogatives conferred on him at Sardica, for he did not follow the procedure there indicated.
These ordinances were not, however, in any sense the source of the pope's jurisdiction, which rested on Divine institution; they were civil sanctions enabling the pope to avail himself of the civil machinery of the empire in discharging the duties of his office.
www.ewtn.com /library/CHRIST/CEPOPE.TXT   (14781 words)

  
 Pope John VII
John VII, Roman Catholic Pope from 705 to 707, successor of Pope John VI, was like his predecessor of Greek nationality.
He seems to have acceded to the request of the emperor Justinian II that he should give his sanction to the decrees of the Quinisext or Trullan council of 692.
There are several monuments of John in the church of St. Maria Antiqua at the foot of the Palatine hill; others were formerly in the chapel of the Virgin, built by him in the basilica of St. Peter.
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 Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Eighth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Saint Boniface is authorized by Pope Gregory II to preach Christianity to all the tribes of Germany.
Pope St. Gregory II answered the Emperor by explaining the difference between pictures and idols with some surprise that Leo III did not already understand it.
The insurgents, meanwhile, thoroughly frightened and unable to connive Charlemagne of the Pope's evil, surrendered, and the guards sent the culprits, Paschalis and Campulus, nephews of Pope Hadrian I and ringleaders against Pope St. Leo III, to the King, to be dealt with at the Royal pleasure.
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 Papal Timeline
Catholics believe that the pope is the universal shepherd of the universal church.
He was first pope to approve the use of torture in the Inquisition to obtain evidence of heresy.
Perhaps the most beloved of all popes, John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council whose impact includes expanding the role of the laity, liturgical renewal, collegiality of bishops, and ecumenism.
www.faithfirst.com /html/popeJohn/timeline/timeline.html   (2164 words)

  
 St. Pachomius Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Very probably a Greek, John VII was elected to the papacy in 705 and built a papal home at the foot of the Palatine Hill, then in the Greek quarter of Rome.
A restorer of churches, John also rebuilt the monastery of Mt. Sabiaco after the Saracens had raided it.
John died after a reign of two years.
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 What's in a name? | Catholic-Pages.com
Pope John Paul I perhaps did not want to show a preference for one or the other's style of leadership, so chose to emulate and honour them both.
Pope John Paul I died after only a month as Pope and Karol Wojtyla, from Poland, was elected in his stead.
With the first John Paul having so little time to make any mark on the papacy, it was perhaps a sign of respect to his short memory, as well as agreement with his reasons for taking the two names.
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 Pope John Paul the most revered human being on earth popejohnpaul.com
Many Popes have altered the rules for the conduct of the gathering of the cardinals called the Conclave (con = with, clavis = key — that is, behind locked doors) which elects the new Pope.
The Pope elected at this Conclave was Pius XII.
The various steps and procedures for the election of the new Pope as revised and promulgated by John Paul II in 1996 may be summarized as follows: The cardinals assemble in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope 15-20 days after the death of the reigning Pope.
www.popejohnpaul.com /php/showGuestBook.php?linkid=8&page=2&pages=3   (11912 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: John VIII: Indulgence for Fighting the Heathen, 878   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John VIII to the bishops in the realm of Louis II [the Stammerer].
You have modestly expressed a desire to know whether those who have recently died in war, fighting in defence of the church of God and for the preservation of the Christian religion and of the state, or those who may in 'he future fall in the same cause, may obtain indulgence for their sins.
The pope who was ruling in 878 was John VIII (872-882).
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/John2-ind878.html   (231 words)

  
 Pope-U-Lator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Paul I was the first pope to officially take two names.
John XVI was a mythical pope that historians recorded as fact and this error messed up the numbers in the names.
At the end of the pontificate, The Cardinal-Camerlengo of the Church destroys the Ring in the presence of members of the Sacred College.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Creations of Cardinals of the VIII Century
At the death of Pope St. Zacharias, Stephen, cardinal priest (or deacon) was elected pope but he died 4 days later without having received the episcopal consecration.
The successive popes who took the same name are listed in the official series in the Annuario Pontificio with two Roman numerals: the first one disregarding the election of the second Stephen, and the second one, in parenthesss, including him as a pope.
A decree issued in the session of April 13, 769 of the Lateran Council convoked by Pope Stephen III (IV), mandated that all future popes had to be either deacons or cardinal priests and that laymen could not vote in papal elections.
www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/consistories-viii.htm   (1719 words)

  
 Pope Chart - All 264 Popes - St. Peter to John Paul II
These historic renderings of the Popes were reproduced from the mosaics in the naves of the Basilica of St. Paul- Outside the Walls.
Information includes the pope who convoked the council, the issues that were decided, contemporary events of the time, pictures and illustrations of where they were held.
Section Three of The Popes features the history of the 28 Jubilees from the first proclaimed by Pope Boniface VII in 1300 to the XVIII Holy Year of the Great Jubilee Proclaimed by John Paul II in 2000.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XIV
After the death of Benedict VII, Bishop Peter Campanora of Pavia, earlier imperial chancellor of Italy, was elected pope with the consent of Emperor Otto II, and was crowned at the end of November or beginning of December, 983, when he took the name of John.
On 7 December of the same year the young emperor, Otto II, died at Rome, prepared for death by the pope, and was buried in the vestibule of St.
After four months the unhappy John XIV died in prison on 20 August, 984, either from starvation and misery or murdered by order of Boniface.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08427b.htm   (145 words)

  
 Circle of Prayer - Papal Encyclicals of Pope Pius VII 1800-1823
We are gathering together papal encyclicals and the writings of various Popes dating back to 1226 from Pope Honorius III.
The first link offers some history on Pope Pius VII and the second brings you to all his encyclicals.
Pope John Paul II was one of the longest reigning Popes in history and has written much.
www.circleofprayer.com /Pope_Pius_VII.html   (385 words)

  
 John Russell Pope ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Cortada explores the Pope's impact at the societal and personal level-having traveled to the Vatican in February 2000 to meet the Pope and participate in the Jubilee for Artists, and then having returned to Cuba for the second time two months...
Cattelan was recently present at the Venice Biennial with the pope knocked down by a stone and...
International celebrity Portrait artists like Barbara Kaczmarowska-Hamilton, with her ability to create an exceptional likeness, was handpicked to immortalise Pope John Paul II and members of the Royal Family.
www.wwar.com /masters/p/pope-john_russell.html   (1286 words)

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