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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Poland revolted from the empire, and the Polish Church began a reform in accordance with Gregory's decrees. |
 | | In 1000 the Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II erected the metropolis of Gnesen for the bishoprics of Posen, Plotsk, Cracow, Lebus, Breslau, and Kolberg. |
 | | The Church of Poland took part, it is true, in the Synod of Constance, at which Hus was burnt, but had not the strength to oppose effectively the reactionary tendency of the nobility, which sought to use heresy as a counterpoise to the influence of the Church. |
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