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Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop of Rome. They are typically ordained bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman ...
Pope John XVI of Alexandria (born Ibrahim al-Tukhi) was the 103rd Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from 1676 to 1718. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He died on 10 Paoni 1434 A.M. (15 June 1718).
John XVI IOANNES Sextus Decimus: Rossanum, Calabria, Italy, Eastern Roman Empire Born as an Eastern Roman citizen. In opposition to Gregory V: 139 2 April 999 – 12 May 1003 (4 years, 40 days) Sylvester II SILVESTER Secundus: c. 945 Belliac, France: 54 / 58 Born Gerbert, a subject of the Kingdom of France, who was the first French pope.
By the Empress's persuasion, John was appointed Bishop of Piacenza, and he was sent to Constantinople to accompany home a Byzantine princess for the younger Otto. After Otto II's death, the youthful Otto III came to the aid of Pope John XV in 996, to put down the rebellion of a faction led by the rich and powerful Roman nobleman Crescentius the ...
William Aloysius O'Connor, appointed Bishop of Springfield in Illinois in 1948; Donald Martin Carroll, appointed Bishop of Rockford in 1956 (did not take effect) Ernest John Primeau, appointed Bishop of Manchester in 1959; Romeo Roy Blanchette, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet in Illinois in 1965
The Bishop of Chicago refers to one of the following religious leaders based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Catholic Church: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago (Latin Church) Bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago (Syro-Malabar Church)
Francis Eugene George OMI (January 16, 1937 – April 17, 2015) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He was the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois (1997–2014) and previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Yakima in Washington State and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
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