Pope Clement II
CLEMENT II,
pope (December 1046-October 1047), born Suidger, a Saxon, and previously bishop of
Bamberg. Clement had been chancellor to the Emperor Henry III., to whom he was
indebted for his elevation to the
Papacy upon the abdication
of
Pope Gregory VI (December 1046). His short pontificate
was only signalized by the convocation of a council in
which decrees were enacted against
simony. He died in
October 1047, and was interred at Bamberg.
from the 9th edition (1876) of an unnamed encyclopedia