Pope Celestine II was born with the given name of Guido di Castello in the year A.D., and died in A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1143 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1144 A.D., during the High Middle Ages. Celestine II was from Città di Castello, and his papal number is: 165 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Short-reigning pope elected after a long and difficult conflict.
Biography:Celestine II came to office after the lengthy and burdensome reign of Innocent II. His pontificate was brief, but it represented a moment of transition in the life of the twelfth-century papacy.
Though he had little time for major initiatives, he brought learning and diplomatic experience to the office. Brief reigns such as his still mattered because they sustained the continuity of papal governance in an age of expanding ecclesial structures.
Celestine II remains a modest but legitimate link in the mature high medieval papacy.
