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3 unusual facts about Gregory VI


Gregory VI

Antipope Gregory VI first to claim to be Pope as successor to Pope Sergius, and that Benedict VIII's claim was subsequent

Pope Gregory VI, John Gratian, elected 1045; abdicated at the Council of Sutri in 1046; died 1048

Gregory VI of Cilicia aka Gregory VI Apirat or Grigor VI Apirat, catholicos of the Armenian Church


Council of Sutri

The claim of the third, Gregory VI, was peculiar in that he had purchased the title in good faith from Benedict IX two years previously.


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