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Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 938
- Died
- 12 May 1003
- Place of birth
- Saint-Simon
- Place of death
- Rome, Lateran Palace
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Silvester
- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, politician, Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, scholaster, writer, cleric
- Position held
- Pope, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims, abbot, Lord Chancellor of France, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ravenna
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- birth name
- Gerbert d'Orlhac
- depicted by
- Cenotaph of Sylvester II
- described by source
- Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed., Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Gerbert d'Orlhac
- place of burial
- Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
- religious order
- Benedictines
- student of
- Atto
- topic's main category
- Category:Sylvester II
- work location
- Rome, Reims, Ravenna, Holy Roman Empire, Bobbio
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