Pius VI

American  

noun

1. Giovanni Angelo, or Giannangelo, Braschi, 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1775–99.

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Pius VI British  

noun

1. original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi . 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1775–99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution: he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars

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Example Sentences

In 1802, Pius VII presided over the funeral of his predecessor, Pius VI, whose body returned to the Vatican after he died in 1799 in exile.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Pius VI kept a dog, Diana, at the summer papal residence in Castel Gandolfo.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Mr. Panetta sat in the front row of the Pope Pius VI Audience Hall, where some 7,000 others had gathered for the pope’s weekly audience.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013

Having been purchased of Count Fede by Pius VI, they were placed in the Museum of the Vatican.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

With this fact in view, the short ensuing campaign against Pius VI, and its consequences, are easily understood.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan