Pope Leo IX (Person) AKA Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg
Pope Leo IX
1002 AD - 1054 AD
AKA Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg
Pope of the Catholic Church 1049 -1054
Leo IX is widely considered the most historically significant German pope of the Middle Ages; he was instrumental in the precipitation of the Great Schism of 1054, considered the turning point in which the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches formally separated.
He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, his feast day celebrated on 19 April.
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