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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:12.306Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Suidger von Morsleben-Horneburg was bishop of Bamberg when King Henry III of Germany marched to Italy in 1046, summoned by Romans desperate to end the chaos of three rival claimants to the papacy. At the Council of Sutri, Henry deposed Benedict IX and Sylvester III, accepted Gregory VI's resignation, and proposed Suidger as the solution. Elected and renamed Clement II on 25 December 1046, he crowned Henry emperor soon after. His pontificate focused on tightening the ban on simony — buying and selling church offices — a corruption that had rotted the institution for decades. He died on 9 October 1047, less than a year in, the first of the German reform popes but not the last.