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Also Known As Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti
Born July 20, 1519 • Bologna • Italy
Died December 30, 1591 (aged 72) • Rome • Italy
Title / Office pope (1591-1591)

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Innocent IX, commemorative medallion, 1591
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Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
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Innocent III
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John XXIII
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Pope Pius IX
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Boniface VIII
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Medallion depicting Pope Julius II
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Alexander III
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Montúfar, Antonio: Saint Francis of Assisi Appearing Before Pope Nicholas V, with Donors
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Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
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