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1828 – Pope Leo XII entrusts the mission in Korea to Paris Foreign Missions Society. 1828 – Basel Mission begins work in the Christiansborg area of Accra, Ghana; [240] Karl Gützlaff of the Netherlands Missionary Society lands in Bangkok, Thailand; [241] Rhenish Missionary Society formed [204]
Elected by the people of Rome, in opposition to Leo VIII who was appointed by Emperor Otto; he accepted his own deposition in 964 leaving Leo VIII as the sole pope. 132 23 June 964 – 1 March 965 (251 days) Leo VIII LEO Octavus: Rome, Papal States Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. His pontificate from 963 to 964 is ...
Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Leo the Great, [1] was Bishop of Rome [2] from 29 September 440 until his death. He is the first of the three Popes listed in the Annuario Pontificio with the title "the Great", [ 3 ] alongside Popes Gregory I and Nicholas I .
Pope Leo XIII sanctioned the missions to Eastern Africa beginning in 1884. [44] In 1887, he approved the foundation of Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, which were organized by the Bishop of Piacenza, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. The missionaries were sent to North and South America to do pastoral care for Italian immigrants.
1879: Encyclical Aeterni Patris, by Pope Leo XIII, prepares a revival of Thomism. 1888: The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is founded. In 2018, it ranked #1 university of Latin America by QS rankings. 1891: San Sebastian Church completed in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines. May 15, 1891: Pope Leo XIII issues encyclical Rerum novarum (Of New ...
Pope Leo X died suddenly of pneumonia at the age of 45 on 1 December 1521 and was buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. [48] His death came just 10 months after he had excommunicated Martin Luther , the seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, who was accused of 41 errors in his teachings.
2013, March: Pope Francis, an Argentinean, becomes the first non-European pope in modern times, first pope from the Jesuit order, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. 2014 No Mass is said in Mosul for the first time in 1,600 years due to the city's fall to ISIL
When Pope Leo died on April 19, 1054, the legates' authority legally ceased, but they effectively ignored this technicality. [ 12 ] In response to Michael's refusal to address the issues at hand, the legatine mission took the extreme measure of entering the church of the Hagia Sophia during the divine liturgy and placing a Bull of ...