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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope Clement XI

1649 - 1721

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Pope Clement XI (Latin: Clemens XI; Italian: Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721. Clement XI was a patron of the arts and of science. He was also a great benefactor of the Vatican Library; his interest in archaeology is credited with saving much of Rome's antiquity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Clement XI has received more than 432,383 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Pope Clement XI is the 150th most popular religious figure, the 175th most popular biography from Italy (up from 192nd in 2019) and the 54th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Clement XI is most famous for his 1713 bull Unigenitus, which condemned 101 propositions from a book by Jansenius.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope Clement XI ranks 150 out of 2,238Before him are Pope Martin V, Barnabas, Pope Clement XIV, Catherine of Siena, Miriam, and Pope Sixtus IV. After him are Pope Pius IV, Bernadette Soubirous, Pope Gregory XII, Huldrych Zwingli, Vladimir the Great, and Saint Christopher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1649, Pope Clement XI ranks 1After him are Pope Benedict XIII, Marie Anne Mancini, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Thomas Tew, John Blow, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Jan Luyken, and Giuseppe Maria Tomasi. Among people deceased in 1721, Pope Clement XI ranks 1After him are Jean-Antoine Watteau, Alexander Selkirk, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Elihu Yale.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pope Clement XI ranks 175 out of 4,668Before him are Pope Clement XIV (1705), Boethius (480), Galba (-3), Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Sixtus IV (1414), and Pompey (-106). After him are Catullus (-84), Pope Pius IV (1499), Giorgione (1478), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Julius III (1487), and Suetonius (70).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope Clement XI ranks 54Before him are Pope Benedict XIV (1675), Pope Sixtus V (1520), Pope Martin V (1369), Pope Clement XIV (1705), Catherine of Siena (1347), and Pope Sixtus IV (1414). After him are Pope Pius IV (1499), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Julius III (1487), Pope Paul IV (1476), Pope Leo I (390), and Pope Innocent XI (1611).