Pius VII

noun

Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti, 1740–1823, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1800–23.

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Pius VII

noun

original name Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti. 1740–1823, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1800–23). He concluded a concordat with Napoleon (1801) and consecrated him as emperor of France (1804), but resisted his annexation of the Papal States (1809)

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