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1468 – 1549

Pope Paul III

Worth knowing

  • Alessandro Farnese, pope from 1534 to 1549.
  • He called the Council of Trent in 1545 and approved the Jesuit order in 1540.
  • In 1537 a commission he appointed reported plainly on corruption in the Roman church. In 1542 he founded the Roman Inquisition.

In Scholar’s Dream, Pope Paul III has one book

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