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Pope Clement II (Latin: Clemens II; born Suidger von Morsleben; died 9 October 1047), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047. He was the first in a series of reform-minded popes from Germany.
Clement II was the pope from 1046 to 1047. Of noble birth, he was bishop of Bamberg, in Germany, when in 1046 he accompanied the German king Henry III on an expedition to Italy, where Henry found three rival popes (Sylvester III, Benedict IX, and Gregory VI), supported by rival Roman families,
Clement of Rome (Latin: Clemens Romanus; Ancient Greek: Κλήμης Ῥώμης, romanized: Klēmēs Rōmēs) (c. 35 AD – 99 AD), also known as Pope Clement I, was a bishop of Rome in the late first century AD.
Pope Clement II was the 149th Roman Catholic pope and served from 1046 to 1047. He was the second man to take the papal name of Clement, as well as being the second pope to be born in Germany. This article looks at the life of Clement before and after his time as pope.
The Holy See Pontiffs Clement II [ AR - DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT] Clement II 149th Pope of the Catholic Church Beginning Pontificate: 24.XII.1046: End Pontificate: 9.X.1047: Secular Name: Suidger, Graf von Morsleben und Hornburg: Birth: Saxony ...
Clement II is the first of several "German" popes who pushed the aims of ecclesiastical reform in the city of Rome. He held a reforming synod in January 1047, issuing decrees against simony and accompanied Henry III to southern Italy. After a summer spent in Rome, he died on a journey north at the Abbey of St. Thomas near Pesaro.
Pope Clement II was the leader of the Catholic Church from 25 December 1046 until he died in 1047. He was born with the name Suidger von Morsleben in Hornburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Clement II, POPE (SUIDGER ), date of birth unknown; enthroned December 25, 1046; d. October 9, 1047. In the autumn of 1046 the King of Germany, Henry III, crossed the Alps at the head of a large army and accompanied by a brilliant retinue of the secular and ecclesiastical princes of the empire, for the twofold purpose of receiving the imperial ...
Enthroned on 25 Dec. 1046, he crowned Henry and his queen Agnes as emperor and empress on the same day. Henry then had himself invested with the rank of patrician, which empowered him to take the lead in the appointment of a pope, and the Romans had to undertake afresh not to elect a pope in future without the approval of emperor and patrician.
He was enthroned in St. Peter's on Christmas Day and took the name of Clement II. He was born in Saxony of noble parentage, was first a canon in Halberstadt, then chaplain at the court of King Henry, who on the death of Eberhard, the first Bishop of Bamberg, appointed him to that important see.
