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Innocent IX

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Also known as: Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti

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Original name:: Giovanni Antonio Fachinetti

Born:: July 20, 1519, Bologna, Papal States

Died:: Dec. 30, 1591, Rome (aged 72)

Title / Office:: pope (1591-1591)

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Innocent IX (born July 20, 1519, Bologna, Papal States—died Dec. 30, 1591, Rome) was the pope from Oct. 29 to Dec. 30, 1591. As bishop of Nicastro, Kingdom of Naples, he participated in the Council of Trent in 1562. In 1566 he was a papal ambassador at Venice. He was later employed in the Roman Inquisition (to combat Protestantism) by Pope Gregory XIII, who appointed him patriarch of Jerusalem (1576) and later made him a cardinal (1583). He assumed practically all administration under the ailing pope Gregory XIV, whom he was chosen to succeed as pope as a short-term replacement ...(100 of 99 words)

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