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Pope St. Gregory the Seventh

Bishop of Rome, 1073 – 1085

Pope St. Gregory the Seventh

In this chair

Hildebrand. Dictatus papae. The Investiture Controversy. He made Henry IV wait in the snow at Canossa, and died in exile: ‘I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile.’

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