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Pope John VI (Latin: Ioannes VI; 655 – 11 January 705) was the bishop of Rome from 30 October 701 to his death. John VI was a Greek from Ephesus who reigned during the Byzantine Papacy. His papacy was noted for military and political breakthroughs on the Italian Peninsula. He was succeeded by Pope John VII after a vacancy of less than two ...
Lazăr was born to a peasant family in Felek, Szeben County, Habsburg Empire, today Avrig, Sibiu County, Romania.He studied in Nagyszeben (), Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), and Vienna, training in theology, but also interested in history and philosophy.
According to the 2011 census, there are 870,774 Catholics belonging to the Latin Church in Romania, making up 4.33% of the population.The largest ethnic groups are Hungarians (500,444, including Székelys; 41% of the Hungarians), Romanians (297,246 or 1.8%), Germans (21,324 or 59%), and Roma (20,821 or 3.3%), as well as a majority of the country's Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Italians, Czechs ...
However, religion also affects political decisions in many western countries. For instance, in the United States, 51% of voters would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who did not believe in God, and only 6% more likely. [215] Christians made up 92% of members of the US Congress, compared with 71% of the general public (in 2014).
Gregory VI on a 19th-century religious card. With an empty exchequer and a clergy that had largely lost the savour of righteousness, Gregory VI was confronted by an almost hopeless task. Nevertheless, with the aid of his "capellanus" or chaplain, Hildebrand, [1] destined to be Pope Gregory VII, he tried to bring about civil and religious order ...
President-elect Donald Trump's Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives are trying to build support for a bill on authorizing talks for the purchase of Greenland, according to a copy ...
Worldwide, there are believed to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans. [6] Until the Iraq War , almost all of them lived in Iraq. [ 23 ] Many Mandaean Iraqis have since fled their country because of the turmoil created by the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation by U.S. armed forces, and the related rise in sectarian violence by ...
In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of his kingdom by claiming his daughter can spin straw into gold. [note 1] The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.