{"id":"pope-sylvester-ii","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-sylvester-ii","language":"en","name":"Pope Sylvester II","name_en":"Pope Sylvester II","name_ne":null,"description":"Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003","headline":"Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Pope Sylvester II, originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and led the Papal States from 999 until his death in 1003. He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is said to be the first in Christian Europe to introduce the decimal numeral system using the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"938","date":"0938"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Saint-Simon","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264298"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"12 May 1003","date":"1003-05-12"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Lateran Palace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q848394"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P20"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"astronomer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11063"},{"text":"mathematician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170790"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"Catholic priest","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q250867"},{"text":"philosopher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4964182"},{"text":"theologian","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1234713"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Pope (7 April 999 – 12 May 1003)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19546","start":"0999-04-07","end":"1003-05-12"},{"text":"Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ravenna (0998–0999)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111631875","start":"0998","end":"0999"},{"text":"Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims (0991–0995)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25587942","start":"0991","end":"0995"},{"text":"Lord Chancellor of France (0991–0995)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1402428","start":"0991","end":"0995"},{"text":"abbot (0982–0984)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103163","start":"0982","end":"0984"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Pope Sylvester II born?","a":"Pope Sylvester II was born on 938 in Saint-Simon."},{"q":"What positions has Pope Sylvester II held?","a":"Positions held by Pope Sylvester II include: Pope (0999–1003); Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ravenna (0998–0999); Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims (0991–0995); Lord Chancellor of France (0991–0995); abbot (0982–0984)."}],"related":[{"name":"Pope Telesphorus","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-telesphorus"},{"name":"Pope Gregory XIII","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-gregory-xiii"},{"name":"Pope Clement VII","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-clement-vii"},{"name":"Pope Pius I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-pius-i"},{"name":"Pope Boniface I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-boniface-i"},{"name":"Pope Agapetus I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-agapetus-i"},{"name":"Pope Innocent VII","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-innocent-vii"},{"name":"Pope John X","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-john-x"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/pope-sylvester-ii-0c789bc27c.jpg","width":489,"height":550,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Meister der Reichenauer Schule","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_der_Reichenauer_Schule_002_(cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Pope Sylvester II","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q172383","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172383","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Meister der Reichenauer Schule 002 (cropped).jpg by Meister der Reichenauer Schule (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_der_Reichenauer_Schule_002_(cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Pope Sylvester II, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Meister der Reichenauer Schule 002 (cropped).jpg — Meister der Reichenauer Schule, Public domain.","cite":"\"Pope Sylvester II\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/pope-sylvester-ii. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T06:43:32Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-sylvester-ii","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-sylvester-ii","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-sylvester-ii?lang=ne"}}