This pope appointed Pellegrino Rossi to promote his economic agenda, which was never implemented due to Rossi's assassination.
This pope appointed Pellegrino Rossi to promote his economic agenda, which was never implemented due to Rossi's assassination. This man's election to the papacy was opposed by the Austrian Cardinal Gaisruck, but the conclave made its decision before Gaisruck's veto arrived in Rome. The Black Nobility sided with this pope, who rejected the Law of Guarantees. This pope listed eighty "condemned propositions" in the Syllabus of Errors. Through the bull Ineffabilis Deus, he defined the concept of the Immaculate Conception, and he oversaw the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council. This pope became the "prisoner of the vatican" after the Papal States were seized by Italian forces. For 10 points, name this longest-reigning pope.
This pope appointed Pellegrino Rossi to promote his economic agenda, which was never implemented due to Rossi's assassination.
Pius IX [or Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti; prompt on Pius]