Clement

Clement, the name of 14 Popes:

Clement I., Pope from 91 to 100; one of the Apostolic Fathers; wrote an Epistle to the Church of Corinth, with references to the Canonical books.

Clement II., Pope from 1046 to 1047.

Clement III., Pope from 1187 to 1191.

Clement IV., Pope from 1265 to 1268.

Clement V., Bertrand de Goth, Pope from 1305 to 1314; transferred the seat of the Papacy to Avignon, and abolished the Order of the Knights Templars.

Clement VI. Pope from 1342 to 1352; resided at Avignon.

Clement VII., Giulio de Medici, Pope from 1523 to 1534; celebrated for his quarrels with Charles V. and Henry VIII., was made prisoner in Rome by the Constable of Bourbon; refused to sanction the divorce of Henry VIII., and brought about the schism of England from the Holy See.

Clement VIII., Pope from 1592 to 1605; a patron of Tasso's; readmitted Henry IV. to the Church and the Jesuits to France.

Clement IX., Pope from 1667 to 1669.

Clement X., Pope from 1670 to 1676.

Clement XI., Pope from 1700 to 1721; as Francesco Albani opposed the Jansenists; issued the bull Unigenitus against them; supported the Pretender and the claims of the Stuarts.

Clement XII., Pope from 1738 to 1740.

Clement XIII., Pope from 1758 to 1769.

Clement XIV., Pope from 1769 to 1774, Ganganelli, an able, liberal-minded, kind-hearted, and upright man; abolished the Order of the Jesuits out of regard to the peace of the Church; his death occurred not without suspicions of foul-play.