Gregory XIII

American  

noun

1. Ugo Buoncompagni, 1502–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1572–85, educator and innovator of the modern calendar.

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Gregory XIII British  

noun

1. 1502–85, pope (1572–85). He promoted the Counter-Reformation and founded seminaries. His reformed (Gregorian) calendar was issued in 1582

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Example Sentences

The legal battle began after the death in 2018 of Prince Nicolo Ludovisi Boncompagni, a descendant of Pope Gregory XIII, who was head of the family which has owned Villa Aurora for generations.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2023

On the reform of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Pope Gregory XIII, a contemporary of Galileo, felt it necessary to institute further calendar reform.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Under the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 and named for Pope Gregory XIII, one day is dropped every 100 years.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2016

The latter presented these rules to his Holiness Gregory XIII, so that he might amend and correct them as our supreme head and shepherd.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander