Adrian II

Or Hadrian II

noun

1. Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 867–872.

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Adrian II. a Roman, installed 14th Dec. 867, died in 872 4th Council of.

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Adrian II. took advantage from the disgrace of Photius to renew against him the anathemas of Nicholas.

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And the bishop who held such language to his king, was the same Hincmar of Rheims, who had so energetically repelled the daring enterprizes of Adrian II.

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Peter-had a wife, and as late as 867, a married man became Pope: Adrian II.

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There is good reason to believe that the majority of priests and bishops during the first four centuries of Christianity were married; so were many Popes, the last of whom was Adrian II in the 9th century.

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