Pope Gregory XIV was born with the given name of Niccolò Sfondrati in the year 1535 A.D., and died in 1591 A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1590 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1591 A.D., during the Reformation. Gregory XIV was from Milan, and his papal number is: 229 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Pope of short reign during the late confessional age.
Biography:Gregory XIV governed briefly during a period when confessional conflict and European power politics deeply affected papal choices. His pontificate was tied to the Catholic League and the wider struggle over the French succession.
He continued the Tridentine spirit in discipline and piety, but his limited time and the intensity of contemporary politics constrained what he could do. The papacy remained deeply engaged in continental affairs.
Gregory XIV is remembered as a brief but earnest pope in the later Reformation world.
