Pope Adrian VI
1459 CE–1523 CE · Utrecht
Born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens in Utrecht, he was a distinguished theologian at Louvain who became tutor to the future Emperor Charles V, then regent and inquisitor-general in Spain. Elected in absentia, he was the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II in 1978. A serious, austere reformer, Adrian VI candidly acknowledged corruption in the Roman curia and sought to curb abuses and confront both the Lutheran movement and the Ottoman threat. His reforming zeal and foreign manner made him deeply unpopular in Rome, and his brief twenty-month reign ended before he could achieve lasting change.
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Utrecht, a city in the central Netherlands and the country's primatial see. Adrian Florensz, the future Pope Adrian VI, was born there (1459); the theologian Jacobus Arminius later studied in the region.
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