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249th Roman Pontiff
Clement XIV
CLEMENS Quartus Decimus
Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, O.F.M. Conv.
248th Successor of St Peter · 1769–1774 · Italy · b. Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Papal States
1769
Elected
1774
Reign ended
5 years
Length
18th
Century
The Life
Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. Member of the Conventual Franciscan Order, with the religious name Lorenzo. Suppressed the Jesuits through the brief Dominus ac Redemptor (1773).
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