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Pope Pius VII (14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823), born Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, was Pope from 14 March 1800 to 20 August 1823, succeeding Pope Pius VI and preceding Pope Leo XII.
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Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti was born in Cesena in the Papal States (present-day Italy) in 1742. In 1756 he joined the Benedictine Order and was ordained as a priest in 1765, serving as Bishop of Tivoli after 1782. In 1785 he was made Bishop of Imola, a title which he held until 1816; the same year he was also created Cardinal-Priest of San Castillo, a title that lasted to 1800.
He was elected as Pope Pius VII after being made a cardinal in 1785 to succeed Pope Pius VI, and was made Pope in an era of warfare between France and Europe's great powers. Pius VII was forced to sit on the bench outside of the Notre Dame Cathedral when Napoleon Bonaparte was coronated as Emperor of France on 2 December 1804, and did not take this insult lightly. He allied with the Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily during the War of the Third Coalition, but Napoleon could not lose his northern Italian allies by attacking the Pope. Henceforth, he remained pope until his death in 1823.
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Pope Pius XII
Head of interpretation Catholic Sanctuary from 1939 to 1958
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Pope remembers Pius VII, a man of communion in difficult times
By Lisa Zengarini
Pope Francis on Saturday paid tribute to the unwavering faith and dedication to the Church of the Servant of God Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) , who was elected to the Papacy in 1800 in one of the most turbulent years of Europe’s and the Church’s history, marked by the French Revolution and Napoleon's rule.
A Benedictine monk and a renowned theologian, Pius VII, born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, is remembered along with his predecessor Pius VI for his unyielding opposition to Napoleon's attempts to subjugate the Church that cost him his arrest and imprisonment in 1809.
“Non debemus, non possumus, non volumus”
Meeting a group of pilgrims from the Italian Dioceses of Cesena-Sarsina, Savona, Imola and Tivoli as they commemorate the bicentenary of his death, Pope Francis recalled that Pius VII’s “dedication to God and the Church” remained unshakable even at the moment of his arrest, when he refused a compromise offered to him saying: “Non debemus, non possumus, non volumus” (“We must not, we cannot, we don’t want”).
Delving into his life, Pope Francis described how he witnessed to three key values, which are also essential for our personal and c