Pope Leo IX
Bruno of Egisheim, a German bishop, began the great reform of the Church in the eleventh century. He travelled across Europe holding councils against the buying of Church offices and against clerical marriage. In 1054, just after his death, his legates in Constantinople excommunicated the Patriarch Michael Cerularius, the event traditionally taken as the beginning of the schism between East and West. He is a saint.
- Pontificate
- 24 February 1049 – 25 April 1054 (5 years, 1 month)
- Birth name
- Bruno d'Egisheim-Dadsburg
- Born
- 27 June 1002, Eguisheim
- Died
- 25 April 1054, Rome
- Preceded by
- Pope Damasus II
- Succeeded by
- Pope Victor II
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