# Pope Benedict XIV

> A canon lawyer who rose to the papacy and turned it into an intellectual workshop. Benedict XIV published theological treatises, built museums, championed science and Baroque art, and earned the rare distinction of being praised by both Catholics and Protestants in an age when that border was a wall.

*Pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/pope-benedict-xiv

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1675-03-31
- **Died:** 1758-05-03
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini was born 31 March 1675 and became head of the Catholic Church on 17 August 1740. One of the most learned men to hold the office, he committed himself to enforcing the Council of Trent's decrees while simultaneously promoting scientific learning, Thomism, and the study of the human form. He created the Sacred and Profane Museums, reduced some taxes in the Papal States while raising others, and encouraged agriculture and free trade. Throughout his reign he published numerous theological and ecclesiastical works, restoring older elements to the Breviary and staging ceremonies with deliberate grandeur to counter the secularism creeping through European courts. Near the end, in 1758, he was forced to expel the Jesuits from Portugal at Joseph I's demand, offering minimal theological cover for a politically driven suppression. He died 3 May 1758, leaving Horace Walpole to call him "a pope without nepotism, an author without vanity, a man whom neither intellect nor power could corrupt."

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.4 / 100
- **Now attention:** 17.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #44

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Lawyer, #Law, #History, #Religion, #Early Modern Era

## Sources
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- [Papa Bento XIV](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Bento_XIV)
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- [Benedykt XIV](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedykt_XIV)
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- [পোপ চতুর্দশ বেনেডিক্ট](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B6_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F)
- [Benead XIV](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benead_XIV)
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- [Benedikt XIV.](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_XIV.)
- [Pab Bened XIV](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pab_Bened_XIV)
- [Pave Benedikt 14.](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pave_Benedikt_14.)
- [Benedikt XIV. (Papst)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_XIV._(Papst))
- [Benedictus XIV](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictus_XIV)
- [Πάπας Βενέδικτος ΙΔ΄](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%99%CE%94%CE%84)
- [Benedikto la 14-a](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikto_la_14-a)
- [Benedicto XIV](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedicto_XIV)
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- [Wikiquote](https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benedikt_XIV.)
- [Wikiquote](https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benedicto_XIV)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Papa_Benedetto_XIV)

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