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Robert Runcie
Runcie, Robert (1921–2000). Archbishop of Canterbury. After war service as a tank commander, winning the MC, Runcie graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford. He was successively principal of Cuddesdon Theological College (1960), bishop of St Albans (1970), and archbishop (1980). A liberal... Read more |
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John Joseph OConnor
John Joseph O'Connor 1920-2000, American Roman Catholic cardinal, b. Philadelphia. He was ordained a priest in 1945 and served as a military chaplain for 27 years, achieving the rank of rear admiral. Ordained a bishop in 1979, he was appointed bishop of Scranton, Penn. in 1983. In 1984 he was... Read more |
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Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI German theologian Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927) took the name Pope Benedict XVI following the death of the immensely popular Pope John Paul II in 2005. As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under John Paul II, he had been responsible for enforcing many of the... Read more |
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Leo XIII
Leo XIII 1810-1903, pope (1878-1903), an Italian (b. Carpineto, E of Rome) named Gioacchino Pecci; successor of Pius IX. Ordained in 1837, he earned an excellent reputation as archbishop of Perugia (1846-77), and was created cardinal in 1853. Leo's election brought a turn in the course of the ... Read more |
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limbo
limbo in Roman Catholic theology, an afterlife realm between heaven and hell where there is no punishment but where souls are denied the presence of God. Never part of Catholic dogma, the concept of limbo was developed during the Middle Ages, and came to be seen as two places. One was the home of... Read more |
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Saint Martin I
Saint Martin I d. 655?, pope (649-55?), an Italian, b. Todi; successor of Theodore I. On his accession he summoned a great council at the Lateran, as St. Maximus had urged, to deal with Monotheletism , discussion of which had been forbidden by Byzantine Emperor Constans II . The council... Read more |
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Isaac Thomas Hecker
Isaac Thomas Hecker 1819-88, American Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers; son of Prussian immigrants. Feeling the general discontent of his day in the dying Puritanism of New England, he associated with the transcendentalists, stayed for a short time at Brook Farm, and was a... Read more |
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Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) is the first Native American to be venerated by the Roman Catholic church. As a Christian convert, in an Iroquois community that possessed a longstanding hostility to all things French, Tekakwitha became an outcast in her village and was forced to... Read more |
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cardinal
cardinal [Lat.,=attached to and thus "belonging to" the hinge], in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the highest body of the church. The sacred college of cardinals of the Holy Roman Church is the electoral college of the papacy . Its members are appointed by the pope. A cardinal's... Read more |
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Alcuin
...probably composed the letter to Pope Leo III wherein pope's and king's functions are defined...the Roman imperial title in the west (in 800). His writings include...Latin verse history in the medieval West, finished possibly as late as 792... |
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Marco Polo
...letters from the Great Khan to the pope requesting the dispatch of a...interregnum following the death of Pope Clement IV, the two brothers set out again with a reply from Pope Gregory X, though without teachers...Ceylon, and it then followed the west coast ... |
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missionary activity
...Germanus, sent over in 429 by Pope Celestine I to combat the Pelagian...progress in Scotland and north and west England. But within a century...by crusades. A mission from Pope Innocent IV in 1246 to the Mongol...the message back invited the pope to submit ... |
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Jackson, “Stonewall” (Thomas)
...general.Born in what is now West Virginia, Jackson was orphaned...education, he was appointed to West Point and by diligent study graduated in...advanced against Union Gen. John Pope, capturing and destroying the...Virginia at Manassas and driving Pope's ... |
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Wales, principality of
...Llywelyn; he was recognized by the pope and his principality was based...Llywelyn's principality) and west Wales (formerly either royal enclaves...Caernarfon, and of two counties in west Wales (Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire...Wales and the principality of ... |
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McClellan, George B.
...Philadelphia; at the age of fifteen, he entered West Point and eventually graduated second in...army from the peninsula, and placed John Pope in charge of Union forces in northern Virginia.However, after humiliating Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee... |
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Bicycles and Bicycling
...banned from many roads. The Bostonian Albert Pope introduced steel frames; brakes; and...first manufactured in the United States by Pope in 1889, featured same...endeavor.Mountain bikes, invented in the West in the 1970s and mass‐marketed beginning... |
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Honorius
...dispatched to convert the Anglo-Saxons by Pope Gregory the Great. Little is known of...Bede reproduced a letter sent to him by Pope Honorius after his appointment and recorded...eighteen months before the appointment of the West Saxon Deusdedit. Honorius was buried at... |
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Homer
...survived in the Middle Ages even in the Latin West where his works were unknown. When the...to contemporary readers which produced Pope's Iliad (1715–20); there was the new view...which justified the ‘fire’ Pope found in Homer, and a new cult of primitivism... |
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Alfred
...more difficult, but left in 896.The West Saxon dynasty was the only one to survive...superficially harmonious. Ninth-cent. West Saxon kings seem not to have pressured...alms to Rome, and receiving gifts from Pope Marinus, and Asser recounts his foundation... |
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East-West Schism
East-West Schism The schism between the...resulted from the occupation of the West by formerly barbarian invaders...This was exacerbated when the popes turned for support to the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in the West rather than to the BYZANTINE... |
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Great Schism
...Church. The Great or EAST-WEST SCHISM (1054) marked the separation...the Italian nobility led to Pope Clement V (1305–14) moving...dominate papal policy and the popes, notorious for their luxurious...followed by schism as two rival popes were elected by the ... |
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Tordesillas, Treaty of
...discovered by COLUMBUS and others. Pope Alexander VI had (1493) approved...100 leagues (about 500 km) west of the Cape Verde islands. All to the west was Spanish, to the east Portuguese...meeting at Tordesillas in north-west Spain where it was agreed to... |
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Alcuin
...probably composed the letter to Pope Leo III wherein pope's and king's functions are defined...the Roman imperial title in the west (in 800). His writings include...Latin verse history in the medieval West, it offers Edwin as supreme kingly... |
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Alfred
...harmonious. Ninth‐cent. West Saxon kings seem not to have pressured...Rome, and receiving gifts from Pope Marinus, and Asser recounts...commissioned to tie Alfred into West Saxon history and Wessex into...fitness to rule, to represent the West Saxon kings as ... |
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Gregory VII, St (of Hildebrand)
...Hildebrand) (c.1021–85) Pope (1073–85). He argued for...Church and that the Christian West should be united under the...When in 1077 he submitted to the pope at CANOSSA papal supremacy seemed...attacked Rome itself, forcing the pope to retreat to Salerno in ... |
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Roman
...Church which acknowledges the Pope as its head, especially as it...ritual, and the authority of the Pope as successor to the Apostle St...the Iberian peninsula in the west, and from the Rhine and Danube...and the last emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus, ... |
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Leo IX, St
Leo IX, St (1002–54) Pope (1048–54). An able church reformer...assist him including Hildebrand (later Pope GREGORY VII). His chief concerns were...the BYZANTINE EMPIRE led to the EAST-WEST SCHISM of 1054 when the Patriarch of Constantinople... |
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Anglo-Saxons
...People dealt with the whole. He followed Pope Gregory I, who knew the people as Angles...east (Kent and East Anglia) to north and west (Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex), and...and functioned as representative of the pope to the Franks. Anglo‐Saxon veneration... |
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Photius
...election, at first endorsed by the legates of Pope Nicholas I, was then (863) annulled by the pope and a schism ensued. Divisions were sharpened...Photian schism anticipated the final East–West schism of the 11th cent., and Photius is... |
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Iraq al-Qaida Says Pope, West Are Doomed
...linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters...continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement...cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from... |
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PACERS SIGN POPE, WEST.(SPORTS)
...have signed veteran free agent Mark West and rookie Mark Pope, a UK graduate who played part of last season in Turkey. Pope, a 6-foot-10 forward, led...season for Efes Pilsen in Turkey. West, 37, once played a stretch of... |
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BASKETBALL PACERS SIGN EX-HUSKY POPE, WEST.(Sports)
...yesterday signed veteran free agent Mark West and rookie Mark Pope, the former Newport High star who...at the University of Washington. West, 37, is considered one of the...seasons without missing a game. Pope, a 6-foot-10 forward, led... |
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Pope: West's 'spiritual toxic waste' has blighted Africa.(News)
THE Pope has accused the West of exporting its moral failings to Africa like 'spiritual toxic waste'. Addressing Roman Catholic bishops, Pope Benedict XVI compared Africa, which he visited earlier this year... |
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Pope Approves West African For Church Post; Move Said to Reflect...
...Cardinal Bernardin Gantin from the West African country of Benin as...transition to the democracy that the pope found when he returned this...month to head what he called the pope's senate, Gantin said that...1978 as the first non-Italian pope since the 16th ... |
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al-Qaida Warns Pope He, West Are Doomed
...in Iraq and its allies warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed" and proclaimed...statement on a Web forum about the pope's remarks last week on Islam...cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from... |
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GOV. PERRY APPOINTS POPE AND WEST TO TEXAS COUNCIL ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
...Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Sue Pope of Willis and Louis West of Taylor to the Texas Council on...Sheila Tello of Corpus Christi. West is a chartered retirement planning...Healthcare Executives Life Fellow. West served in the U.S. Army. He... |
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CONGRESSWOMAN ELLMERS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF MATTHEW GLENN POPE TO WEST...
...announce today that Matthew Glenn Pope has received a full appointment...serve as a model to carry on West Point's rich traditions and...to announce that Matthew Glenn Pope of Nashville, NC has received...starting July 2012. Matthew Pope is the son of Tim ... |
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POPE CONDEMNS EAST-WEST CLASH THIRD WORLD ILLS LAID TO RIVALRY.(Main)
...Stephen R. Wilson Associated Press Pope John Paul II on Friday blamed the rivalry between East and West for social and economic ills...rivalry between the East and West was main reason for the widening...John Paul singled out East-West rivalry as the cause ... |
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Pope tours West Bank
BETHLEHEM, West Bank Taking his Holy Land pilgrimage...into Palestinian territory, Pope John Paul II prayed Wednesday...helicopter deposited him in the West Bank, near Palestinian Authority...Authority rules 40 percent of the West Bank that Israel captured in... |
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