Gregory VI

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noun

1. Johannes Gratianus, died 1048, German ecclesiastic: pope 1045–46.

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Example Sentences

This John nevertheless passed in the city “for one of the best of the ecclesiastics; and while “Benedict took up his abode in houses of pleasure, “John under the name of Gregory VI. governed the “church two years and three months, till the arrival “of Henry III., king of Germany.”

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We have seen by the statement of Victor III. that in 1045, there existed at the same moment three popes; to wit, Benedict IX. who had retired to his castle; Sylvester III. exiled to his original bishopric; and Gregory VI. seated at Rome, since 1044.

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At the moment of Henry’s arrival, at Rome, the three popes were there, Benedict IX. at the palace of the Lateran, Sylvester III. at the Vatican, and Gregory VI. or John his coadjutor, at Saint-Mary-Major.

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Sylvester III. and Gregory VI. all three, popes at the same time, were deposed by the emperor Henry III.

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At the age of twenty-five he became chaplain to Pope Gregory VI., after whose fall from power he sought seclusion in the monastery at Cluny.

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