biography
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Paul III
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originally Alessandro Farnese
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1468–1549)
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| biography:
| Pope (1534–49), born in Canino, WC Italy. The first of the popes of the Counter-Reformation, in 1538 he issued the bull of excommunication and deposition against Henry VIII of England, and also the bull instituting the Order of the Jesuits in 1540. He summoned the Council of Trent in 1545. |
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