# Pope Urban VIII

> The pope who put Galileo on trial. Urban VIII reigned through two decades of the Thirty Years' War, commissioned Bernini's greatest works, and left the papacy bankrupt from his military ambitions — but he's remembered most for the astronomer he condemned.

*235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 (1568–1644)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/pope-urban-viii

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 1568-04-05
- **Died:** 1644-07-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII in August 1623 and spent twenty-one years trying to expand papal territory through warfare and political maneuvering. He poured Church wealth into the arts — Bernini worked under his patronage — and into military campaigns that drained the Vatican's coffers so badly his successors couldn't recover the papacy's old political weight in Europe. In the midst of the Thirty Years' War, he also fought the Copernican model of the universe: the Galileo affair ended with the astronomer tried for heresy. He died in July 1644, the last pope to take the name Urban.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 11.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 1.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #44

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Law, #Religion, #Early Modern Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131579)
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- [اوربان التامن](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86)
- [VIII Urban](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIII_Urban)
- [Урбан VIII](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD_VIII)
- [Урбан VIII](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD_VIII)
- [Урбан VIII](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD_VIII)
- [Urban VIII](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_VIII)
- [Urbà VIII](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urb%C3%A0_VIII)
- [Gáu-huòng Urbanus 8-sié](https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1u-hu%C3%B2ng_Urbanus_8-si%C3%A9)
- [Urban VIII.](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_VIII.)
- [Pab Urbanus VIII](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pab_Urbanus_VIII)
- [Pave Urban 8.](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pave_Urban_8.)
- [Urban VIII.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_VIII.)
- [Urban VIII](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_VIII)
- [Πάπας Ουρβανός Η΄](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%9F%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%97%CE%84)
- [Urbano la 8-a](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbano_la_8-a)
- [Urbano VIII](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbano_VIII)
- [Urbanus VIII](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanus_VIII)
- [Urbano VIII.a](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbano_VIII.a)
- [پاپ اوربان هشتم](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%85)
- [Urbanus VIII](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanus_VIII)
- [Urben VIII](https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urben_VIII)
- [Urbain VIII](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_VIII)
- [Wikiquote](https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Urban_VIII.)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Papa_Urbano_VIII)
- [Wikiquote](https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD_VIII)
- [Pous Urbanus VIII](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pous_Urbanus_VIII)

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