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{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 1055 to 1057}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader |honorific-prefix=[[List of popes|Pope]] |type=Pope |name=Victor II |title= [[Bishop of Rome]] |church= [[Catholic Church]] |image=Gebhard I Bischof von Eichstätt, als Victor II Papst.JPG |caption=Gebhard depicted in the Pontifical of Gundekar |term_start=13 April 1055 |term_end=28 July 1057 |predecessor=[[Pope Leo IX|Leo IX]] |successor=[[Pope Stephen IX|Stephen IX]] |birth_date=ca. 1018 |birth_place=[[Kingdom of Germany|Germany]], [[Holy Roman Empire]] |death_date=28 July 1057 (aged 38–39) |death_place=[[Arezzo]], [[Holy Roman Empire]] |other=Victor}} [[File:SCeau Victor II 17111.jpg|thumb|[[Seal (document)|Seal]] of Victor II]] '''Pope Victor II''' (c. 1018 – 28 July 1057), born '''Gebhard von Dollnstein-Hirschberg''', was the head of the [[Catholic Church]] and ruler of the [[Papal States]] from 13 April 1055 until his death in 1057.<ref>Charles A. Coulombe, ''Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes'', (Citadel Press, 2003), p. 208.<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref> Victor II was one of a series of German-born [[pope]]s who led the [[Gregorian Reform]].
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