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Mino da Fiesole

(Encyclopedia) Mino da FiesoleMino da Fiesolemēˈnō dä fyāˈzōlā [key] or Mino di GiovanniMino di Giovannidē jōvänˈnē [key], 1429–84, Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance. He produced many…

Durandus, Gulielmus

(Encyclopedia) Durandus, GulielmusDurandus, Gulielmusgulēĕlˈməs dy&oobreve;rănˈdəs [key], 1237?–1296, French canon jurist and theologian. Educated at the Univ. of Bologna, he served several 13th-…

Jurieu, Pierre

(Encyclopedia) Jurieu, PierreJurieu, Pierrepyĕr zhüryöˈ [key], 1637–1713, French Calvinist theologian. He was (1674–81) professor at Sedan. In 1681 in an attempt to preserve Huguenot liberties he…

Lamy, Jean Baptiste

(Encyclopedia) Lamy, Jean BaptisteLamy, Jean BaptistezhäN bätēstˈ lämēˈ [key], 1814–88, Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. Southwest, b. France. He was ordained in 1838 and, after doing missionary…

Eunomius

(Encyclopedia) EunomiusEunomiusy&oomacr;nōˈmēəs [key], c.a.d. 333–a.d. 393?, bishop of Cyzicus (c.361), founder of the Eunomian heresy. He was a disciple and secretary of Aetius whose extreme…

Bouillon

(Encyclopedia) Bouillon, town, Luxembourg prov., SE Belgium, in the Ardennes on the Semois River, near the French border. It is a small manufacturing…

Welby, Justin Portal

(Encyclopedia) Welby, Justin Portal, 1956–, archbishop of Canterbury (2013–), b. London, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1978). An oil executive until 1989, he studied theology at St. John's…

Vologda

(Encyclopedia) VologdaVologdavôˈləgdə [key], city (1989 pop. 283,000), capital of Vologda region, N central European Russia, on the Vologda River. It is a major river and rail junction in a dairying…

Wyszynski, Stefan

(Encyclopedia) Wyszynski, StefanWyszynski, Stefanstĕˈfän vĭzĭnˈskē [key], 1901–81, Polish prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Ordained in 1924, he received (1929) a doctorate in sociology…

Sussex, kingdom of

(Encyclopedia) Sussex, kingdom of, one of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy (seven kingdoms) in England, located S of the Weald. It was settled in the late 5th cent. (according to tradition in 477) by Saxons…