Pope Clement III
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1188 to 1191 · Italy · Religious Figures
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Something wrong?He came back to Rome after the Papacy had been locked out for six years, cut a deal with the city's magistrates, and refilled the depleted college of cardinals faster than any pope in a generation.
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Born Paolo Scolari in 1130, he ascended to the papacy on 19 December 1187 at a moment when Rome and the Church were estranged. The conflict had driven the Papacy into exile; Clement ended it by allowing the city to elect its own magistrates, a concession that let him return. Facing a college of cardinals gutted by attrition, he created thirty-one new cardinals over three years - the most aggressive expansion since Adrian IV. He died 20 March 1191, three years into the job, and Celestine III took the chair almost immediately.
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