Pope Gregory X
Pope from 1271 to 1276
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ItalyThe pope who walked into a vacancy so chaotic it had dragged on three years — the longest papal election in Church history — and left behind the rules that would govern conclaves for seven centuries.
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Born Teobaldo Visconti around 1210, he was a Franciscan tertiary who entered a church paralyzed by deadlock: the 1268–1271 election stretched so long it became its own crisis. Elected in September 1271, Gregory X moved fast. He convened the Second Council of Lyon and drafted strict new regulations for papal conclaves, designed to prevent the chaos that had nearly broken the institution. Adrian V and John XXI briefly scrapped his rules, but they snapped back into place and held as standard practice into the 20th century, suspended only in extraordinary moments — French occupation in 1798, feare…
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