Miniature of Leo IX contained in an illuminated manuscript of the 11th century
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
12 February 1049
Papacy ended
19 April 1054
Predecessor
Damasus II
Successor
Victor II
Personal details
Born
Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg
21 June 1002
Egisheim, Alsace, Duchy of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire
Died
19 April 1054(1054-04-19) (aged 51) Rome, Papal States
Previous post(s)
Bishop of Toul (1026–49)
Sainthood
Feast day
19 April
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Canonized
1082 by Pope Gregory VII
Other popes named Leo
Pope Leo IX (21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054), born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054.[1] Leo IX is considered to be one of the most historically significant popes of the Middle Ages; he was instrumental in the precipitation of the Great Schism of 1054, considered the turning point in which the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches formally separated.
Leo IX favoured traditional morality in his reformation of the Catholic Church. One of his first public acts was to hold the Easter synod of 1049; he joined Emperor Henry III in Saxony and accompanied him to Cologne and Aachen. He also summoned a meeting of the higher clergy in Reims in which several important reforming decrees were passed. At Mainz, he held a council at which the Italian and French as well as the German clergy were represented, and ambassadors of the Byzantine emperor were present. Here too, simony and clerical marriage were the principal matters dealt with. He is regarded as a saint by the Catholic Church; his feast day is celebrated on 19 April.[2]
^Coulombe, Charles A., Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes, (Citadel Press, 2003), 204.
^Butler, Alban, Butler's Lives of the Saints, (Liturgical Press, 2003), 176.
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