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Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
Pages in category "11th-century popes" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Pope Alexander II; B.
But after the death of Henry III, the pope quickly moved to change the system to prevent such secular involvement in the election of future popes. The eleventh century is often called the century of Saxon popes: Pope Gregory VI (1045–1046), Pope Clement II (1046–1047), Pope Damasus II (1048), Pope Leo IX (1049–1054), Pope Victor II (1055 ...
15th-century painting of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont (1095), where he preached an impassioned sermon to take back the Holy Land; later manuscript illumination of c. 1490 In March 1095 at the Council of Piacenza , ambassadors sent by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I called for help with defending his empire against the Seljuk Turks .
Pope Leo IX: 1002 1054 Pope Blessed Herman the Cripple: 1013 1054 Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (Bartholomew of Rossano) 970 1055 Gurloes 1057 Íñigo of Oña (Eneco) 1057 Alfwold 1058 Bishop of Salisbury: Ardanus (Ardaing, Ardan, Ardagne) 1058 Paternus 1058 Dominic Lauricatus (Dominic of San Severino) 995 1060 Blessed Gisela of Hungary
Plaque commemorating popes buried in St Peter's Basilica. This is a graphical list of the popes of the Catholic Church. While the term pope (Latin: Papa, 'Father') is used in several churches to denote their high spiritual leaders, in English usage, this title generally refers to the supreme head of the Catholic Church and of the Holy See.
Pope Leo IX (21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054), born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054. [1]
Pope Clement II (Latin: Clemens II; born Suidger von Morsleben; died 9 October 1047) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047. He was the first in a series of reform-minded popes from Germany.