{"id":15239,"date":"2026-01-05T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:35:31","slug":"this-week-in-christian-history-pope-innocent-iii-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=15239","title":{"rendered":"This week in Christian history: Pope Innocent III elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/> By  Michael Gryboski<span class=\"quiet\">, Editor Sunday, January 04, 2026<\/span><a class=\"reporter-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelGryboski\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><span class=\"photo-des\">A 14th century depiction of Pope Innocent III (1161-1216) excommunicating the Albigensians and a group of Crusader knights attacking the Albigensians. <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moments of profound impact have shaped the Church&#8217;s extensive history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each week commemorates anniversaries of milestone achievements, heartbreaking tragedies, inspiring triumphs, memorable births and solemn passings.<\/p>\n<p>Some events spanning 2,000 years of history echo through time, while others remain shrouded in obscurity for many.<\/p>\n<p>The following pages spotlight significant anniversaries in Christian history: the death of Samuel Johnson, Isabella Thoburn\u2019s arrival in India, and the election of Pope Innocent III.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Michael Gryboski on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelGryboski?hc_ref=SEARCH&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Twitter <\/a> or Facebook \u00a0\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Gryboski, Editor Sunday, January 04, 2026A 14th century depiction of Pope Innocent III (1161-1216) excommunicating the Albigensians and a group of Crusader knights attacking the Albigensians. | Wikimedia Commons Moments of profound impact have shaped the Church&#8217;s extensive history.\u00a0 Each week commemorates anniversaries of milestone achievements, heartbreaking tragedies, inspiring triumphs, memorable births and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[72,3077,1207,622,3042,109,561],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-christian","tag-elected","tag-history","tag-iii","tag-innocent","tag-pope","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}