Pope Gregory XVI
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 (1765-1846) · Italy · Religious Figures · Died at 80
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Something wrong?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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, Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism.
This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.
About this person
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 and slavery itself. He died of erysipelas in June 1846, the most recent pope to bear the name Gregory.
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