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Adrian II

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Or Hadrian II

noun

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


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

From Time Magazine Archive

And this is probably the chief part of his musical reform; in the saying about him, ascribed to Pope Adrian II.,

From St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music by Wyatt, E. G. P.

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.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois