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Sylvester II
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Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Sylvester II was a Pope of the Catholic Church who served from 938 to 1003. He is a significant historical figure because he held one of the highest positions in medieval Christianity during a period of important cultural and political change in Europe.
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- The Letters of Gerbert, with his papal privileges as Sylvester II
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Silvester
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Saint-Simon
- Place of death
- Lateran Palace
- Occupation
- theologian
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Meister der Reichenauer Schule 002 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Bobbio
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Sylvester II
- date of death
- 1003-05-12
- date of birth
- 0938-00-00
- place of burial
- Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
- student
- Fulbert of Chartres
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described by source
- Wikitólica
- name in native language
- Gerbert d'Orlhac
- birth name
- Gerbert d'Orlhac
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- P13311
- mind
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Sylvester II, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Pope Sylvester II (Latin: Silvester II; c. 946 – 12 May 1003), 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 to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is said to be the first in Christian Europe (outside of Al-Andalus) to introduce the decimal numeral system using the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
Early life
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