id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3807 Pope Urban VIII - Wikipedia .html text/html 5241 851 65 Pope Urban VIII (Latin: Urbanus VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in 1644. His father died when he was only three years old and his mother took him to Rome, where he was put in the charge of his uncle, Francesco Barberini, an apostolic protonotary.[2] At the age of 16, he became his uncle's heir.[3] He was educated by the Society of Jesus ("Jesuits"), and received a doctorate of law from the University of Pisa in 1589. Urban VIII issued a 1624 papal bull that made the use of tobacco in holy places punishable by excommunication;[12] Pope Benedict XIII repealed the ban one hundred years later.[13] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3807.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3807.txt