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Despite his political involvement Henry made religious matters his prime concern and supported monastic reform movements, including the Cluniac order . He branded as simony the customary payments made to the king by new bishops and in 1046 undertook to reform the church. Descending into Italy, he had three rival claimants to the papacy set aside at the synods of Sutri and Rome and was accorded the decisive vote in papal elections.
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