Urban VIII

Also known as Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, Urbanus VIII

Katolska kyrkans 235:e påve 1623–1644

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Urban VIII was the pope who led the Catholic Church from 1623 until his death in 1644, a period when the Church faced significant challenges from the Protestant Reformation and internal reform movements. He is historically notable for his role in major religious and political events of the 17th century, including his complex relationship with the scientific community—most famously his conflict with Galileo over the heliocentric theory.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1568
Died: 1644
Works: 27

Top works

An answer to Pope Vrban his inurbanity
Officium B. Philippi Confessoris
Totius cleri Gallicani, Lutetiae congregati, ad sanctissimum D.D. nostrum Vrbanum VIII pont. maximum, epistola
Poesie toscane del card. Maffeo Barberino hoggi papa Vrbano ottavo
Breviarium Romanum

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Cagliari
Active from: 2010

Discography

Drakon2014
Decathexis2016

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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to Urban VIII, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Universal Iubilee as plenissimo as the Holy Year: us Don Francisco Navarro de Eugui... Bishop of Huesca... let us know that our mui Santo Padre Urbano Papa VIII, in twenty, i two of November of last year one thousand six hundred and twenty, i nuebe, granted a universal Iubilee..

Sacra Congregatione ritum ... Cardinali Barberino parente hispaniorum, siuè Cartaginen concesionis, & approbationis officii propii S. Fulgentii episcopi Cartaginen ...