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5 unusual facts about Pope Gregory VI


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.

Gregory VI

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

Hryhory Yakhymovych

In July 1841 Hryhory Yakhymovych was appointed by Pope Gregory VI as auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv and consecrated as bishop on 21 November 1841 in Lviv by Metropolitan Mykhajlo Levitsky.

Pope Gregory VI

After about a year in Cluny, Hildebrand returned to Rome in January 1049 with the new Pope Leo IX (Bruno of Toul), successor of Popes Clement II and Damasus II.

Witchcraft in Anglo-Saxon England

Discussing the death of Pope Gregory VI, which occurred in 1046, he digressed to discuss the death of a witch that occurred at about the same time.



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