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Born September 12, 1904 • New York City • New York
Died August 16, 1967 (aged 62) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study church and state • freedom of religion
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Suárez, Francisco
Francisco Suárez
Spanish theologian and philosopher
St. Edmund
St. Edmund of Abingdon
archbishop of Canterbury
John of Paris
French theologian
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
Ignacio Ellacuría
Spanish-born El Salvadorian priest, philosopher, and theologian, and human rights activist
George Tyrrell
Irish theologian
Ireland, John
John Ireland
American archbishop
John Carroll
American bishop
St. Anselm of Canterbury
St. Anselm of Canterbury
archbishop and philosopher
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Feofan Prokopovich
Russian-Ukrainian theologian and writer
Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
Sergius
Russian theologian and patriarch
Richard Rothe
German theologian
Vinet, Alexandre-Rodolphe
Alexandre-Rodolphe Vinet
Swiss theologian
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
president of United States
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
St. Gregory VII
pope