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Gerbert may have been the author of a description of the that was edited by some 50 years later

By this account, the on Gerbert's sphere was located at 54 degrees, several degrees off from the actual 66° 33'

While Latin celebrations can continue, "the presumption is consistently against them: bishops are being invited to close them down," Shaw said, adding that the requirement for Latin Masses to be held outside a parish was "unworkable

These groups cannot use regular churches; instead, bishops must find alternate locations for them without creating new parishes

The pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerbert as a tutor for his young son,.

Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass: They immediately condemned it as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy
Pope: Besides these, as Sylvester II he wrote a dogmatic treatise, De corpore et sanguine Domini—On the Body and Blood of the Lord
Pope: Like all Catalan monasteries, it contained manuscripts from and especially from , one of the intellectual centres of Europe at that time: the library of , for example, had thousands of books from science to Greek philosophy

He is said to be the first to introduce in Europe the numeral system using the

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As pope, he took energetic measures against the widespread practices of and concubinage among the clergy, maintaining that only capable men of spotless lives should be allowed to become bishops

He put six of these thirty parts of the half-sphere between the pole and the first circle; five between the first and the second; from the second to the third, four; from the third to the fourth, four again; five from the fourth to the fifth; and from the fifth to the pole, six

He spoke for 14 minutes, but at one point appeared short of breath.

Pope Sylvester II: In a letter of 984, Gerbert asks for a book on and , two terms historian S
Pope: He joined the two circles called by the Greeks coluri and by the Latins incidentes because they fell upon each other, and at their extremities he placed the poles
Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass: Arnulf was deposed in 991 for alleged treason against Hugh, and Gerbert was elected his successor

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Soon after he became pope, Sylvester II confirmed the position of his former rival Arnulf as archbishop of Rheims

Bishop Atto was part of the delegation that met with al-Ḥakam II, who received him with honor

He endorsed and promoted study of Arab and arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroducing to Europe the and , which had been lost to Europe since the end of the Greco-Roman era

There was so much opposition to Gerbert's elevation to the See of Rheims, however, that 985—996 sent a legate to France who temporarily suspended Gerbert from his episcopal office.

Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass: Some of these traditionalists and Catholics already were among Francis' fiercest critics, with some accusing him of heresy for having opened the door to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion
Pope: He said he based his decision on a 2020 Vatican survey of all the world's bishops, whose "responses reveal a situation that preoccupies and saddens me, and persuades me of the need to intervene
Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass: After the death of Otto II in 983, Gerbert became involved in the politics of his time