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Calixtus II

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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Pope, son of Guillaume, count of Burgundy, was made archbishop of Vienne in 1088, and elected pope Feb. 1, 1119, while in retirement at Cluny. He was judged likely to compose the troubles about investiture, which had agitated the Church for fifty years; and even Henry V appeared to join in the general satisfaction. At the council held at Rheims in 1119 nothing, however, could be concluded to effect a reconciliation between Henry and the pope, and the former was formally excommunicated. In 1122, at the Dietof Woims (Sept. 23), an accommodation it was agreed upon between the parties, the emperor reserving to himself his right of giving to the elect the investiture of the regalia, while the pope, on his part, conferred the investiture by the cross and ring. In 1120 Calixtus returned to Rome, and re-established the papacy there. In 1123 he held a Lateran council, in which the edicts of the and-pope Gregory VIII were annulled. He died Dec. 12, 1124. Mosheim, Ch. Hist. cent. xii, pt. ii, ch. ii, § 5, 6; Landon, Eccl. Diet. 2:494.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Calixtus II'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/calixtus-ii.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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