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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 See also:pope on the 25th of See also:December Io46. He belonged to a See also:noble Saxon See also:family, was See also:bishop of See also:Bamberg, and See also:chancellor to the See also:emperor See also:Henry III., to whom he was indebted for his See also:elevation to the papacy upon the See also:abdication of See also:Gregory VI. He was the first pope placed on the See also:throne by the See also:power of the See also:German emperors, but his See also:short pontificate was only signalized by the See also:convocation of a See also:council in which decrees were enacted against See also:simony. He died on the 9th of See also:October 1047, and was buried at Bamberg. (L.

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