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Article: Pius VII
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- Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Pius VII
Pius VII (1740-1823), who was pope from 1800 to 1823, began his reign with some sympathy for the liberal goals of the French Revolution, but under Napoleon he withdrew to a conservatism more consistent with the traditions of his Church.
Forced into an ambiguous relationship with the French Empire and later with the restored Bourbon monarchy, Pius VII expended most of his energies combating the Gallican separatism of the state-dominated French clergy by emphasizing papal supremacy throughout the entire Church and by striving for a revival of Ultramontanism.
Pius VII was born Luigi Barnab
à
Chiaramonti at Cesena, Italy, on Aug. 14, 1740. At the age of 18 he entered the ...
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