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Pope
Gregory XVI
Bishop of Rome
Gregory XVI in 1844
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
2 February 1831
Papacy ended
1 June 1846
Predecessor
Pius VIII
Successor
Pius IX
Orders
Ordination
1787
Consecration
6 February 1831 by Bartolomeo Pacca
Created cardinal
13 March 1826 by Leo XII
Personal details
Born
Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari
(1765-09-18)18 September 1765
Belluno, Republic of Venice
Died
1 June 1846(1846-06-01) (aged 80) Rome, Papal States
Previous post(s)
Vicar-General of the Camaldolese Order (1814–1826)
Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto (1826–1831)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith (1826–1831)
Signature
Coat of arms
Other popes named Gregory
Pope Gregory XVI (Latin: Gregorius XVI; Italian: Gregorio XVI; born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in June 1846.[1] He had adopted the name Mauro upon entering the religious order of the Camaldolese.
Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic and modernising reforms in the Papal States and throughout Europe, seeing them as fronts for revolutionary leftism.[citation needed] Against these trends, Gregory XVI sought to strengthen the religious and political authority of the papacy, a position known as ultramontanism. In the encyclical Mirari vos, he pronounced it "false and absurd, or rather mad, that we must secure and guarantee to each one liberty of conscience." He encouraged missionary activity abroad and condemned the slave trade, which at the time of his pontificate was increasingly suppressed.
He is the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Gregory", the last to govern the Papal States for the whole duration of his pontificate, and the most recent not to have been a bishop when elected.
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and of the Vatican City State, though not on the pope's personal coat of arms since Pope Benedict XVI replaced the tiara on his official coat of arms with...
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V, Pope John XXII, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement VI, Pope Innocent VI, Pope Urban V, and PopeGregory XI) 6 from Germany (PopeGregory V, Pope Clement...
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of Our Lady of Confidence falls on the last Saturday prior to Lent. PopeGregoryXVI granted a canonical coronation to the image on 14 October 1838, via...
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of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by PopeGregoryXVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people...
reign of Pope St. Gregory I. PopeGregoryXVI granted the image a canonical coronation on 15 August 1838 through the papal bull Cælestis Regina. Pope Pius...
the principal Patroness of Korea by a Pontifical decree accorded by PopeGregoryXVI in 1841. The cathedral serves as a community landmark, tourist attraction...
II violently unseated Gregory V and, with the active support of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, acclaimed John as Pope John XVI. A synod of the Western...
and doctorates of civil and Canon Law in Rome. On 14 February 1837, PopeGregoryXVI appointed the 27-year-old Pecci as personal prelate even before he...
about the work of non-Catholic bible societies were acknowledged by PopeGregoryXVI in the latter's 1844 encyclical letter Inter Praecipuas. Pius VII was...
cross.[citation needed] Vintras and his followers were condemned by PopeGregoryXVI followers in an 1846 pamphlet, The Saints of Tilly-sur-Seulle, for...
Lenten devotions. He was canonized in 1839 by PopeGregoryXVI and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1871. One of the most widely read...
the fresco. Brumidi had worked for three years in the Vatican under PopeGregoryXVI, and served several aristocrats as an artist for palaces and villas...
greatly. Some popes have used it rarely or not at all, while others have used it regularly. In the first half of the 19th century, PopeGregoryXVI appointed...
first, antipope John XVI was kept in the numbering sequence instead of being removed; then, the number XX was skipped because Pope John XXI counted John...
by Pope John XXIII in 1959. Pope John Paul II authorized the coronation through a decree dated 16 March 2004 — Prot. n. 387/04/L Pope Benedict XVI, Congregation...
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