Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)

Pope Gregory XVI

Head of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846

Pope Gregory XVI was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in June 1846. He had adopted the name Mauro upon entering the religious order of the Camaldolese. He is the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Gregory",…