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I. The Pontificate of Adrian IV1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2011
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On Saturday, 4 December 1154, eight hundred years ago, Nicholas Breakspear was elected pope. On the following day he was enthroned and crowned at St Peter's, Rome. Adrian IV was the only ‘pontifex natione Anglicus’ who has assumed the tiara.
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A lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 1 December 1954.
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