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253rd Roman Pontiff
Pius VIII
PIVS Octavus
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni
253rd Successor of St Peter · 1829–1830 · Italy · b. Cingoli, Papal States
1829
Elected
1830
Reign ended
1 year
Length
19th
Century
The Life
Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. Accepted Louis Philippe I as king of the French. Condemned the masonic secret societies and modernist translations of the Bible through the brief Litteris altero (1830).
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