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Also Known As Gian Pietro Carafa
Born June 28, 1476 • Italy
Died August 18, 1559 (aged 83) • Rome • Italy
Title / Office pope (1555-1559)
Founder Theatines
Subjects Of Study papal primacy
Role In Counter-Reformation

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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
Gregory IX
pope
Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Spanish cardinal
Innocent III
Innocent III
pope
Paul III
Paul III
pope
Martin V
Martin V
pope
Nicholas I, Saint
Saint Nicholas I
pope
Charles V
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Philip II
Philip II
king of Spain and Portugal
Charles III
Charles III
king of Spain
Azaña, Manuel
Manuel Azaña
president of Spain
Ambrogio Spinola
Ambrogio di Filippo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases
Spanish military officer
Isabella Farnese
queen of Spain
Saint Hugh of Cluny
French abbot
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
Spanish cardinal
Alonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar
Spanish diplomat
Peter Martyr d’Anghiera
Italian chaplain and historian of the Spanish court
Pope St. Gelasius I
St. Gelasius I
pope
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.
St. Gregory VII
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St. Gregory the Great
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Pius IX
Pius IX
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