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To salvage the electoral system from internal and external chaos, Pope Nicholas II decreed in 1059 that popes should be selected by men of the cloth – namely, cardinal-bishops. Up to then ...
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This week in Christian history: Francis Asbury dies, Russian bishop consecrated, Sylvester II becomes popeThey include the death of Francis Asbury, Sylvester II becoming pope, and Saint Nicholas of Japan becoming a bishop. Nicholas of Japan made a bishop – March 30, 1880 This week marks the anniversary of ...
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