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CLEMENT II

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT II  . (Suidger) became pope on the 25th of December Io46 . He belonged to a noble Saxon
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family, was bishop of
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Bamberg, and chancellor to the emperor Henry III., to whom he was indebted for his
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elevation to the papacy upon the abdication of Gregory VI . He was the first pope placed on the
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throne by the power of the German emperors, but his short pontificate was only signalized by the convocation of a council in which decrees were enacted against
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simony . He died on the 9th of
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October 1047, and was buried at Bamberg . (L .

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