# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-leo-xiii
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:55:10.873Z

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name: "Pope Leo XIII"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Gioacchino Pecci in Carpineto Romano in 1810, he rose through church ranks as an intellectual more than a diplomat. Elected pope in 1878, he inherited a Church stripped of the Papal States and facing a world of socialism, capitalism, and industrial misery. His response was Rerum novarum in 1891: a third way that defended unions and fair wages while rejecting both atheistic socialism and laissez-faire extremes, reshaping Catholic social doctrine for a century of successors. He also revived Thomism as the Church's philosophical spine, sponsored the Editio Leonina, and issued eleven encyclicals on the rosary alone. He died in 1903 after the fourth-longest papal reign on record, never having governed an inch of papal land — the first pope since the 8th century to hold office without temporal rule.