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Pope Gregory XVI
said
Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism.
— Mirari vos (15 August 1832)
Pope Gregory XVI
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 (1765–1846)
- Fame68.5
- Momentum15.0
- Italy rank#236
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- Fame68.5
- Momentum15.0
- Italy rank#236
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Lived 1765–1846, aged 81Italy
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Updated 2026-06-21
The last pope to rule the Papal States from election to death, and the last elected without already being a bishop — a Camaldolese monk who spent fifteen years holding the line against both Italian nationalism and the slave trade.
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Born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari in Belluno in 1765, he joined the Camaldolese order at eighteen, taking the name Mauro, and was ordained a priest in 1787 while teaching philosophy and theology. Made a cardinal, he was elected pope in February 1831 and took the name Gregory XVI. His fifteen-year pontificate became a rearguard defense of traditional doctrine and the temporal power of the Papal States against the rising tide of Italian patriotic movements. Overseas, he pushed a renewed commitment to missionary work. In 1839, his papal brief In supremo apostolatus condemned both the slave trade…
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Pope Gregory XVI
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This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.
— Mirari vos (15 August 1832)
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