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| | + | |<span style="font-size:small;">'''[[List of High Pontiffs of the Church of the Canon|High Pontiff]]'''</span> <br><span style="font-size:medium;"> '''Sixtus IV''' |
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| | |<span style="font-size:small;"> '''Enthronement''': 29th of the Amber Cold, 1567 | | |<span style="font-size:small;"> '''Enthronement''': 29th of the Amber Cold, 1567 |
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| − | '''Sixtus IV''' ([[Common]]: ''Sixtus IV''; [[High Imperial]]: ''Xyxtus IV''), born as '''Benegar Gotthold''', is a Heartlander and a Canonist Priest who was elevated to the Cardinalate in the latter years of the pontificate of Theodosius I. | + | '''Sixtus IV''' ([[Common]]: ''Sixtus IV''; [[High Imperial]]: ''Xyxtus IV''), born as '''Benegar Gotthold''', was a Heartlander clergyman who served as High Pontiff from 1567 to 1577 before his abdication due to failing health. Marked for his reforms of the faith and the re-emphasis upon mass attendence, he is commonly known as '''the Theologian'''. |
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| − | Benegar Gotthold began as a priest after his ordination with his assignment in the Vandorian capital of Aethermoor in the land of Vailor. At the onslaught of the Rebellion of Courland and the Dreadlands, he was immediately moved to the Duchy of Carnatia where he served as parish priest and chaplain to the Gold Corps. In 1563, he departed from Carnatia upon his elevation to bishop (and subsequently to the Synod as a Cardinal) to the Duchy of Lorraine where he briefly was stationed in Arnaut. With worsening news of the Rebellion and the war within Oren, he quickly sided with the High Pontiff on key decisions such as the excommunication of the self-proclaimed King of the Krajia, the removal of Cardinal Svatobor Ivanovich, and the canonization of St Karl Barbanov. Gotthold was then moved one last time to the Province of Erochland in 1564 at the request of the var Rutherns. There, he governed as Archbishop of Erochland. In 1565, he dedicated a newly built cathedral at his order for the commemoration of the sainthood of Karl Barbanov. At the sudden death of High Pontiff Theodosius, he along with the other cardinals were summoned to Visiga to elect a new High Pontiff. Four days later, on the 29th of the Amber Cold in the year 1567, Cardinal Benegar Gotthold was elected High Pontiff of the Holy Canonist Church by a slim majority of three votes to two, defeating Cardinal Fabian the Lesser.
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| − | Sixtus’ pontificate is overshadowed by the waning moments of the Rebellion and the disunion within the Orenian Empire in Vailor and the reformation of the Church during the stagnant period it had seen in the past twenty years. In his inaugural homily, Sixtus emphasized the theme of unity, which became a recurring ideology during his reign. In the Autumn of 1567, he issued a Pontifical Encyclical titled Unitatem in nostri mundi. In the letter, the Pontiff urged the faithful, both clergy and laity alike, to seek peace and tolerance amidst the chaos, offering ways to encourage faith in daily life. This became the brainchild of his announcement of the Jubilee Year of Unity. He was also responsible for the redefinition of various dogma in the Eleventh Golden Bull of Holofernes. Sixtus presided over the coronation of Emperor John III in 1568, and in 1570, embarked in the great exile to Axios.
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| − | Together with the Imperial administration, the Church was stationed in the capital city of Johannesburg under the Holy See of St Thomas. He chose Idas of Plevne to be Vice Chancellor, who had a major impact in policy and support. On the 8th of the Snow’s Maiden in Anno Domini, 1573, the High Pontiff issued the First Golden Bull of Johannesburg imposing a major reformation of the Synod, establishing five positions, sponsoring the poorhouse of St Amyas and the Abbey of St Tobias outside the walls of Johannesburg, canonizing High Pontiff Saint Daniel I, the broadening of certain church traditions such as the authorization of a Ruskan liturgy (where he appointed Yaroslav Vasiliev as Holy Exarch and Ruskan Canonist Patriarch), and the permission for women to be inducted into the Holy Knights of St Wilfriche.
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| − | In his Pontificate, he experienced two assassination attempts. The first was an apostate group of elves and another by a rogue archer in the night in St Thomas square when he was shot in the back and survived. Sixtus also upheld vigilance in faith and law, blessing a lynch mob who purged Dreadlanders. He is also responsible for the revival of the Holy Order of the Knights of St Wilfriche, which have become a more prevalent institution in regards to the Church’s authority and protection.
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| − | In 1573, the High Pontiff issued a writ of excommunication on Guy Owyn for aggravated threats and intolerable conduct. In acting within the continuity of policy, Sixtus also granted indulgences and all forgiveness of sins in his Pontifical Encyclical Remissionem Peccatorum for all those who fight heresy and establish good for the benefit of the Church in support of Emperor John III’s call to take up arms against the Dreadlands at court.
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| − | In issuing the First Golden Bull of Johannesburg, the Pontiff called for a return to Evarardian tradition and growth for the Church. Two years later in 1574, High Pontiff Sixtus IV convoked The Apostolic Council of St Thomas to gather the Synod and supporting clergy at his bequest to reform the liturgy of the mass and to redefine the social teaching of the Canonist Church and its relationship with the evolving world of Axios with the intention of restoring the growth that began under Daniel I and Everard II.
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| − | In the latter years of his reign, he issued the last Bull of his Pontificate, officially naming the Dioceses of all Axios, the reforging of a replica Laurel of Horen to restore tradition, and the canonization of Miguel Cortez as a saint. He abdicated the Immaculate Throne on the 5th of the Grand Harvest in the year 1577 in a speech justifying his advancing age and inability to fulfill the Holy Office at the Cathedral of St Thomas in Johannesburg. He is succeeded by his second Vice-Chancellor, Cardinal Giovanni di Luca, now High Pontiff Lucien IV.
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