Pope Innocent V

Innocent V., civil Pierre de Tarentaise, (* 1225 in Tarentaise, Moutiers today in Savoy, † June 22, 1276 in Rome) was in 1276 for a few months pope.

Since 1264 he was Provincial of the Dominican Order. 1272 he was appointed Archbishop of Lyon and in 1273 for Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. He was also a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. As an employee of Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus he has in science made ​​a bigger name than during his pontificate. During this time he received the title of Doctor famosissimus.

Innocent V. was elected on January 21, 1276 to the Pope, just one day after the start of the conclave which met for the first time according to the strict rules of his predecessor Gregory X.. The Cardinals were not allowed to leave the building before a new pope had been elected. Innocent was the first Dominican to the chair of Peter, and practiced his office a scant six years until his death on June 22, 1276 from. Although he tended to neutrality, he came very quickly under the influence of Charles I of Sicily, who lived as a Roman Senator in Rome. Therefore he supported uncomplainingly its policy towards Rudolf von Habsburg. He tried in vain to deepen the church union with Byzantium.

Pope Innocent V. was buried in S. Giovanni in Laterano. With the great fire in 1308 his tomb was lost. He was on 3 March 1898 by Pope Leo XIII. beatified. His Catholic feast day is day of his death on June 22.

Works

• In quattuor libros Sentences Commentaria. 4 vols Toulouse 1652.