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Sylvester II
938 CE – 1003 · aged 65
Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
- Born
- 938 CE · Saint-Simon
- Died
- 1003 · Lateran Palace
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- 938 CEBornBorn in Saint-Simon
- 982 CE – 984 CERoleAbbot
- 991 CE – 995 CERoleLord Chancellor of France
- 991 CE – 995 CERoleRoman Catholic Archbishop of Reims
- 998 CE – 999 CERoleRoman Catholic Archbishop of Ravenna
- 999 CE – 1003RolePope
- 1003DiedDied in Lateran Palace
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Biography
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 led the Papal States from 999 until his death in 1003. 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.
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