Roman Catholic Pope. Born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchior Girolamo Nicola, he was elected Pope on September 28, 1823. At first, he was not willing to accept the election due to his poor health, telling the cardinals that they were electing "a dead man." He had a noble character, a passion for order and efficiency, but he lacked insight into, and sympathy with, the temporal developments of his period. His rule was unpopular in Rome and in the Papal States, and by various measures of his reign he diminished greatly for his successors their chances of solving the new problems that confronted them. Exposed and buried in the patriarchal Vatican basilica, he was later transferred and buried before the altar of St. Leo the Great in the same basilica, on December 5, 1830.
Roman Catholic Pope. Born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchior Girolamo Nicola, he was elected Pope on September 28, 1823. At first, he was not willing to accept the election due to his poor health, telling the cardinals that they were electing "a dead man." He had a noble character, a passion for order and efficiency, but he lacked insight into, and sympathy with, the temporal developments of his period. His rule was unpopular in Rome and in the Papal States, and by various measures of his reign he diminished greatly for his successors their chances of solving the new problems that confronted them. Exposed and buried in the patriarchal Vatican basilica, he was later transferred and buried before the altar of St. Leo the Great in the same basilica, on December 5, 1830.
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