Александр I(105-115 or 109-119, fifth Pope after St. Peter and successor to St. Evaristus. His 10-year rule is attested by Pope St. Eusebius, 309-310); Александр II(Pope from 1061 to 1073 who worked for the abolition of simony, the enforcement of clerical celibacy, and laid the foundations of a reform movement); Александр IV(Pope from 1254 to 1261 who worked for reunion between eastern Christians and Rome, and attempted in vain to organize a crusade against the Tatars); антипапа Александр(V) (Antipope from 1409 to 1410 allegedly poisoned by his successor, the antipope John XXIII; V); Александр VII(Pope from 1655 to 1667 whose pontificate was marked by several disputes); Александр VIII(Pope from 1689 to 1691 who maintained the condemnation of the Gallican Articles of 1682, which restricted papal authority, and opposed Jansenism); Александр III(Pope from 1159 to 1181, not merely one of the abler medieval Popes but also one who won greater prestige for his office by his conduct)
Alexander Corrupt, worldly, and ambitious Pope from 1492 to 1503, whose neglect of the spiritual inheritance of the church contributed to the development of the Protestant Reformation['ælɪg'zɑ:ndə]n
