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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 fled, but the Emperor's troops pursued and captured him, cut off his nose and ears, cut out his tongue, broke his fingers and blinded him, that he might not write, and publicly degraded him before Otto III and Gregory V by being forced to ride through the streets of Rome seated backwards on a donkey. [10]
The numbering of "Popes John" does not occur in strict numerical order. Although there have been twenty-one legitimate popes named John, the numbering has reached XXIII because of two clerical errors that were introduced in the Middle Ages: 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 ...
Writing in the conservative journal First Things, Richard B. Hays (Duke Divinity School) praised Pope Benedict for trying to find a common point between Christology and the historical Jesus, but criticized him for relying too much on 20th century scholars (such as Joachim Jeremias, Rudolf Schnackenburg and C.H. Dodd) and for ignoring studies by more recent scholars such as E. P. Sanders, N. T ...
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Pope Cyril VI was born as Azer Youssef Atta in Damanhour, Egypt, into a Coptic Orthodox middle-class family, the son of a deacon. He resigned from a civil service position to become a monk in July 1927 (Paoni–Epip 1643).
In the second chapter, Pope Benedict focuses on the annunciation of the births of John the Baptist and Jesus. Through a closer reading of the dialogue between Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in the Gospel of Luke, the author explains that, through a woman, God "seeks to enter the world anew". [ 3 ]
997–998 Antipope John XVI, deposed by Pope Gregory V and his cousin Holy Roman Emperor Otto III 1000 or 1001 Saint Stephen of Hungary crowned; Hungary becomes a Christian country 1001 Byzantine emperor Basil II and Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah execute a treaty guaranteeing the protection of Christian pilgrimage routes in the Middle East