Vienne
Proper noun
Meaning
A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
A river in southwest France.
A city in the Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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He and his suite departed Lyons in May, 1275; he left Vienne shortly after 30 September 1275, and arrived in Lausanne on 6 October.
Archbishop Guy de Bourgogne of Vienne, France, who was not a cardinal, was elected at Cluny on 2 February 1119.
In 1314 the collegium at Vienne convened to make a ruling concerning the Templars.
He continued to set up monastic communities, and extended the bounds of his episcopate from Touraine to such distant points as Chartres, Paris, Autun, and Vienne.
He was crowned Pope at Vienne on February 9, 1119.
He set up Vienne as the capital of the kingdom of Burgundy.