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	Pope Silvester I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silvester I (or Sylvester) was pope from January 314 to December 31, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
		According to the 19th century historian Döllinger, the entire legend of Silvester and Constantine, with all its details of Constantine's leprosy and the proposed bath of blood, cannot have been composed later than the close of the 5th century, while it is certainly alluded to by Gregory of Tours and Bede.
		Pope Silvester II (999-1003) chose the name Silvester in imitation of Silvester I; Silvester II was a close associate of emperor Otto III.
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	Pope Benedict IX
		The son of Alberich III[?], count of Tusculum, and nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX.
		King Henry III intervened and at the Council of Sutri[?] in December 1046 Benedict and Silvester were deprived of their offices and Greogry was encouraged to resign, Benedict did not actually attend.
		succeeded by Pope Silvester III (1045), Pope Gregory VI (1045-1046), Pope Clement II (1046-1047) and Pope Damasus II (1048).
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	Encyclopedia: Pope Silvester I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
		Silvester I (or Sylvester) was pope Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church.
		Silvester's legendary relationship to Constantine was important in the Middle Ages The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three 'ages': the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times.
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	Pope Silvester I - Wikipedia
		Silvester I (or Sylvester), pope (January 314-December 335), succeeded Miltiades and was followed by Marcus.
		It was certainly known to Pope Hadrian in 778, and was inserted in the false decretals towards the middle of the next century.
		Pope Silvester II (999-1003) chose the name Silvester in imitation of Silvester I - Silvester II was a close associate of emperor Otto III.
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	Pope Silvester II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The pope persuaded Otto to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future emperor Otto II.
		Gerbert took the name Silvester II (alluding to Pope Silvester I, the advisor of Constantine the Great).
		As pope, he took energetic measures against the widespread practices of simony and concubinage among the clergy, maintaining that only capable men of spotless lives should be allowed to become bishop.
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	SILVESTER (I.-III.) - LoveToKnow Article on SILVESTER (I.-III.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SILVESTER I., bishop of Rome from January 314 to December 335, succeeded Melchiades and was followed by Marcus.
		SILVESTER II., pope from 999 till 1003, and previously famous, under his Christian name of Gerbert, first as a teacher and afterwards as archbishop successively of Reims and Ravenna, was an Aquitanian by birth, and was educated at the abbey of St Gerold in Aurillac.
		The pope condemned this marriage as adulterous; and Abbo of Fleury, who visited Rome shortly after Gregory V.'s accession, is said to have procured the restoration of Arnulf at the new pontiff's demand.
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	Pope Silvester I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Silvester I (or Sylvester), pope (January 314 - December 335), succeeded Miltiades and was followed by Marcus.
		According to the 19th century historian Döllinger, the entire legend of Silvester and Constantine, with all its details ofConstantine's leprosy and the proposed bath of blood, cannot have been composed later than the close of the 5th century, while it is certainly alluded to by Gregory of Tours and Bede.
		It was certainly known to Pope Adrian I in 778, and was inserted in thefalse decretals towards the middle of the next century.
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	A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.4, C.5.
		He, too, was of the party of Stephen VI and Sergius III, but he showed himself a strong ruler and a capable soldier, organising a league of princes against the Saracens, defeating them in a great battle in 916 and routing them from their stronghold on the Garigliano.
		The pope called in the Hungarians, but before long a riot in Rome brought his reign to an end and in 928 he died in prison, smothered, it is said, at Marozia's orders.
		The emperor swore to defend the pope and the pope swore to be loyal to the emperor.
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	Pope Silvester II: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Pope Silvester II
		Pope Silvester II: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Pope Silvester II Quick Research: Pope Silvester II
		Silvester II, pope (999-May 12, 1003 at Rome).
		He then became tutor to Otto III, who eventually selected him to succeed Gregory V, Otto's cousin, as pope in 999.
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	List of popes - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pope Sixtus II; Pope Saint Syxtus II 22 July 259 to 26 December 268
		Pope Felix III (Felix II); Pope Saint Felix
		Pope Felix IV (Felix III); Pope Saint Felix
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		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.
		In 769 a council was held under Stephen III to rectify the confusion caused by the intrusion of the antipope Constantine.
		iii, " De elect.", in 60 (I, 6)], by which it was ordained that during the election of a pontiff the cardinals should be secluded from the world under exceedingly stringent regulations, and that the seclusion should continue till they had fulfilled their duty of providing the Church with a supreme pastor.
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	Pope Benedict IX
		He was installed pope at the age of twelve through the influence of his father.
		The disorders of his conduct, though tolerated by the emperors, Conrad II and Henry III, who were then morally responsible for the pontificate, at length disgusted the Romans, who drove him out in 1044 and appointed Silvester III his successor.
		Silvester remained in the papal chair but a few weeks, as the people of Tusculum quickly recovered their influence and reinstated their pope.
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	Pope Silvester III
		When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome early in January 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected in his stead and took the title of Silvester III.
		Within three months Boniface returned and expelled his rival.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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	Pope Silvester III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silvester III (or Sylvester), né John (born in Rome; probably died in 1062 or 1063); was pope in 1045.
		He was later charged, probably falsely, with having bribed his way into the election.
		Nearly two years later (December 1046) the Council of Sutri deprived him of his bishopric and priesthood and ordered him sent to a monastery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antipope_Sylvester_III (271 words)

	Pope Silvester III - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Pope Silvester III - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A successor bishop to the see of Sabina is recorded for October 1063, indicating that John must have died prior to this date.
		Pope Silvester III, Popes and Natives of Rome.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pope_Silvester_III (275 words)

	"More Catholic Than the Pope" — New Book Responds to Arguments Raised by Extreme Traditionalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pope approaved of altar girls communion in the hand and the whole list and he has appointed official female theologians and reversed the statements that a women should be submissive to her husband.
		Popes have issued official proclamations that had to be reworded by subsequent Popes,bishops were often disobedient and paid more attention to the prevailing politics than the Holy Fathers and history often is subject to revision.
		Actually if a pope defines something under the definition in Vatican I which is a very narrow definition with bounderies being oversteped with the conciliar popes, then he is protected from error- that is a doctrine of the Church which we must believe in order to be Catholic.
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	Pope Silvester III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Romein September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protractedinfighting and took the title of Silvester III in January 1045.
		Benedict issued an excommunication of the new pope and withinthree months returned to Rome and expelled his rival, who himself returned to Sabina to again take up his office of bishop inthat diocese.
		While the right of Silvester III to be considered an authentic pope is open to some question, and some consider him to havebeen an anti-pope, he continues to be listed as an official pope in Vatican lists.
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	Pope Silvester II Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pope Silvester II Info - Bored Net - Boredom
		Pope Silvester II Silvester II, pope (999-May 12, 1003 at Rome).
		He then became tutor to Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, who eventually selected him to succeed Pope Gregory V, Otto's cousin, as pope in 999.
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	Chemistry - Pope Silvester II
		Pope Silvester II Gerbert of Aurillac, later known as pope Silvester II, (or Sylvester II), (ca.
		Some years later, Otto gave Gerbert leave to go to study at the cathedral school of Reims where he was soon appointed a teacher in the cathedral school by Archbishop Adalbero.
		There have been other popes that were suspected of sorcery, for example John XXI and Benedict XII.
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	Claims of Apostolic Succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roman Catholics, for example, claim that the Pope is the successor of the apostle Peter, and that he's infallible and the ruler of all Christians on earth as a result.
		[Pope Silvester III's] right to be considered an authentic pope is open to question....
		Usually classified as an antipope, [Alexander V's] claim to be an authentic pope is still debated, and some historians give him the compromise description of 'council pope'.
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	History of the Mass (10histot.htm)
		With Pope Benedict VIII's death on April 6, 1024 and the subsequent death of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II that same year the baton of power was passed to Pope John XIX and Conrad II.
		However in the fall of 1046 Henry III, in an effort to sort everything out and restore order to the papacy and the kingdom of Italy, not to mention the Holy Roman Empire, held a synod in Sutri near Rome and formally deposed both Silvester III and Benedict IX.
		Now they had their man in office and the selection of this wise and elderly Pope Gregory VI met with the approval of the electorate who felt this would be a welcome change from the immature and young Benedict who had shown his true colors.
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	Encyclopedia Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...- maybe 1055 or 1065) was pope from 1032 to 1045.
		Although in terms of theology and the ordinary...John XIX (1024-1032) succeeded by Pope Silvester III (1045), Pope Gregory VI (1045-1046), Pope...
		...preceded by Pope Benedict IX (1032-1045) succeeded by Pope Benedict IX (1045) n ' conclave of an unrevealed...
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	Pope Silvester I - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Pope Silvester I - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Pope Silvester I contains research on
		Pope Silvester I, References, 1911 Britannica, 335 deaths, Popes, Saints and Ancient Roman Christianity.
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	Patron Saints Index: Pope Silvester II
		He fought against simony, worked for clerical celibacy, and insisted on bishops with spotless backgrounds who could really help their flocks.
		He supported Otto III, but an uprising on 1 February 1001 caused both pope and emperor to flee Rome for several months.
		Those who knew him admired him for his learning; some common folks worried that such intelligence indicated he was in league with the devil.
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		Before 1032 there really were some bad Popes, including the one's the ruled under "Pornocracy," but once we get to 1032 things really start to kick in.
		Another thing I don't understand about Catholics is why they consider the Pope to be their link to God and the one person who can decide if they can or can't go to heaven.
		They were though of before by many theologians but were never put into play until Pope Gregory I added them to the church in what historians believe was for the power.
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	Pope Silvester III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eutyches appealed to Pope Leo to uphold him.
		In 484, Pope Felix III (483-492) excommunicated the...
		Lives of the Popes : The Pontiffs from St. Peter to John Paul II by Richard McBrien (Paperback - February 2000)
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	Historic Venturing into Germany
		More particularly, in 738AD there is a letter from Pope Gregory III to Bonifatius, in which the populous is referred to as Hassiorum (The folk of Hessen).
		The Carolingians, under Pepin's son, Charlemagne, annexed all of southern Germany and the lands in the north and northeast, held by the Saxons.
		The Emperor Otto III in 997 conferred on Bishop Haymon of Verdun, and his successors in office, the title of count of this episcopal city and of prince within the Holy Roman Empire with all the rights of sovereign rule.
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	THEOPHYLACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The spectacle of this twelve-year-old issuing excommunications, giving his papal blessing, formulating decrees, consecrating bishops, deciding theological matters, was ludicrous enough, but it took more than that to shake the impassive Greeks.
		But Benedict's family again put him back on the throne, and Silvester III had to flee.
		At the same time, living in Rome were Silvester III in St. Mary Major's, and Gregory VI in St. Peter's.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gregory the Illuminator
		Constantine, who had just been baptized at Rome by Pope Silvester, forms an alliance with Trdat; the pope warmly welcomes Gregory (there are a number of forged letters between Silvester and Gregory, see below) -- and so on.
		Pope Gregory XVI, in September, 1837, admitted his namesake to the Reman Calendar; and appointed 1 October as his feast (among the festa pro aliquibus locis).
		The so-called letters between Pope Silvester I and St. Gregory are printed in AZARIAN, Ecclesiae armeniae traditio de romani pontificis primatau (Rome, 1870).
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