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'''Nicholas Breakspear''' (b.1100, Abbots Langley, England - d.September 1, 1159, [[Rome]]) became Pope Adrian IV of the [[Roman Catholic]] Church in 1154. His real name was Nicholas Breakspeare. He is the only [[England|Englishman]] to ever be [[Pope]] of the Roman Catholic Church. He donated Ireland to the English monarch King Henry II in a papal bull.

'''Nicholas Breakspear''' (b.1100, Abbots Langley, England - d.September 1, 1159, [[Rome]]) became Pope Adrian IV of the [[Roman Catholic]] Church in 1154. His real name was Nicholas Breakspeare. He is the only [[England|Englishman]] to ever be [[Pope]] of the Roman Catholic Church. He donated Ireland to the English monarch King Henry II in a papal bull because at the time the Irish Church was a peculiar Celtic brand of Christianity outside of Rome's control and he wanted to reincorporate the Irish Church into orthodox Catholicism.

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