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Clement XIV

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noun

  1. Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio GanganelliLorenzo Ganganelli, 1705–74, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1769–74.


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It also noted that Catherine protected Jesuits in Russian-controlled lands after Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order worldwide in 1773.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2023

St. John Paul II famously appointed his own superiors to run the Jesuits in 1981, some 200 years after Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order altogether.

From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2018

Instead of being excommunicated, Mozart was rewarded by an impressed Pope Clement XIV.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2016

Indeed, Clement XIV was elected in 1769 on a specifically anti-Jesuit ticket and obediently suppressed the Jesuits altogether in 1773.

From Newsweek • Mar. 19, 2013

"Masche-Fer IV.," just as the Church has Clement XIV.,

From Ferragus by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott