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Leo IX

noun
1.
German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054).  Synonyms: Bruno, Bruno of Toul.





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... a measure of the Greek and Russian world as well, by the middle of the eleventh century, when the Byzantine Emperors had broken the strength of the Eastern Caliphate, and recovered most of the realm of Heraclius; when the Roman Papacy under Leo IX., Hildebrand, and Urban began its political stage, aiming, and in great part successfully aiming, at an Imperial Federation of Europe under religion; when on every side, in Spain, in France, in ...
— Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. • C. Raymond Beazley
... Confessor gave the united bishopric of Crediton and Cornwall to his chaplain, Leofric, who, observing that Crediton was an open town, difficult to fortify against the Danish raiders, obtained from Pope Leo IX permission to remove the episcopal see to Exeter, when the Benedictine minster of St. Mary and St. Peter became the cathedral church ...
— Exeter • Sidney Heath


Words linked to "Leo IX" :   Roman Catholic Pope, Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, pontiff, Vicar of Christ, Holy Father, pope


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