(n)Italian pope from 1534 to 1549 who excommunicated Henry VIII of England in 1538 and initiated the Council of Trent in 1545; was active in the Counter Reformation and promoted the Society of Jesus for this purpose (1468-1549), Syn.Alessandro Farnese
(n)a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791), Syn.Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Potyokin, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin