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became pope on 2 February 1592
Clement VIII was elected pope on January 30, 1592, not February 2. February 2, 1592 was the date of his episcopal consecration.
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This date conflicts with standard papal chronology and with other dates given in the article itself. Reliable Catholic reference sources list Ippolito Aldobrandini (Clement VIII) as elected pope on 30 January 1592. The Vatican's biography page gives the beginning of his pontificate as 30.I,9.II.1592, reflecting the start of the pontificate on January 30 and the later ceremonial installation/coronation on February 9. Catholic-Hierarchy likewise lists the 1592 conclave as ending on 30 January 1592 with Clement VIII elected, and separately lists his episcopal consecration as 2 February 1592. New Advent's Catholic Encyclopedia also states that he "was elected pope 30 January, 1592." So the article's statement that he "became pope on 2 February 1592" is incorrect: February 2 was not the date he became pope.
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- Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope Clement VIII
He was elected pope 30 January, 1592.
- Clement VIII | The Holy See
Beginning Pontificate 30.I,9.II.1592
- Conclave - 1592 | Catholic-Hierarchy
10 January 1592 to 30 January 1592 ... Elected Pope: Clement VIII
He also successfully adjudicated in a bitter dispute between the Dominicans and the Jesuits on the issue of efficacious grace and free will.
Clement VIII did not successfully settle the De Auxiliis dispute. He oversaw the proceedings, but no final doctrinal decision was issued, and the controversy was later left unresolved under Paul V.
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This sentence overstates Clement VIII's role in the De Auxiliis controversy. Reliable Catholic reference works say that Clement VIII presided over and managed the dispute, but did not resolve it. New Advent's Catholic Encyclopedia article on Clement VIII says he "was present at all the sessions of the Congregatio de auxiliis ... but wisely refrained from issuing a final decree on the question." Its separate article on the Congregatio de Auxiliis states that after decades of debate, including proceedings under Clement VIII and Paul V, "the question was not solved"; in 1607 Paul V merely allowed both Dominicans and Jesuits to defend their respective doctrines while forbidding them to condemn the other side. The New Catholic Encyclopedia entry reproduced at Encyclopedia.com likewise says Clement died in 1605 "without having promulgated a decision" and that in 1607 Paul V allowed both orders to defend their teachings, adding that "No decision on the matter has yet been made."
So Clement VIII certainly intervened in the controversy, but the claim that he "successfully adjudicated" it is inaccurate because the dispute was not settled by him and, according to these sources, remained unresolved.
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- Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope Clement VIII
He was present at all the sessions of the Congregatio de auxiliis (q.v.), but wisely refrained from issuing a final decree on the question.
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Congregatio de Auxiliis
Finally, after twenty years of discussion ... the question was not solved but an end was put to the disputes.
- Congregatio de Auxiliis | Encyclopedia.com
However, on March 4, 1605, Clement died without having promulgated a decision... Both orders were allowed to defend their own teachings... No decision on the matter has yet been made.