Pope Clement XIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
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- Fame64.3
- Momentum16.6
- Religious Figures rank#78
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ItalyHe spent his entire papacy defending the Jesuits against monarchs who wanted them gone — and lost. Clement XIII held the line until it killed him, dying weeks before he would have faced the final demand to dissolve the order he refused to abandon.
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Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico became Pope Clement XIII on 6 July 1758 and was installed ten days later. From the start, European courts pressed him to suppress the Society of Jesus, the Church's most powerful teaching and missionary order. He refused repeatedly, championing the Jesuits even as France, Spain, and Portugal expelled them and severed diplomatic ties. Clement also sought reconciliation with Protestants in England and the Low Countries, hoping to heal old schisms through dialogue — a rare stance for an eighteenth-century pope, though the outreach went nowhere. He died on 2 February…
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