benedetto odescalchi

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Innocent XI

–noun

(Benedetto Odescalchi

) 1611–89, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1676–89.

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benedetto odescalchi
noun
Italian pope from 1676 to 1689 whose papacy was marked by the struggle with Louis XIV of France over papal authority over French Catholics; known for saintliness and canonized in 1956 (1611-1689) [syn: Innocent XI]

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