Sylvester II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 946)

Pope Sylvester II

Head of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003

Pope Sylvester II, originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and ruled the Papal States from 999 to his death. He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing…