Leo IX

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1. Saint Bruno, 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.

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Leo IX British  

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1. Saint, original name Bruno of Egisheim. 1002–54, pope (1049–54): first of the great medieval reforming popes. Conflict with the Eastern Church led to the schism between Rome and Constantinople (1054). Feast day: April 19

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Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII enforced Church laws against simony and the marriage of priests.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

The great schism between the two bodies dates back to 1054, when the churches of Pope Leo IX and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople angrily excommunicated each other's leader.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leo IX, pope from 1049 to 1054, was a native of Upper Alsace.

From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter

These complaints were at once answered by Pope St. Leo IX, who tried, in a most eloquent letter, to bring the deluded patriarch to reason.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Not only did the new Pope, Leo IX, take this inflexible advocate of the Church's claims as his chief adviser, but he surrounded himself with reforming ecclesiastics from beyond the Alps.

From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)