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Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
Plaque commemorating popes buried in St Peter's Basilica. This is a graphical list of the popes of the Catholic Church. While the term pope (Latin: Papa, 'Father') is used in several churches to denote their high spiritual leaders, in English usage, this title generally refers to the supreme head of the Catholic Church and of the Holy See.
3 from the Holy Land in modern-day Israel and Palestine (Pope Peter, Pope Evaristus, and Pope Theodore I) 3 from Africa Proconsularis [1] in modern day Tunisia (Pope Victor I, Pope Miltiades, Pope Gelasius I) 2 from Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia (Pope Caius and Pope John IV) 2 from Valencia in modern-day Spain (Pope Callixtus III and Pope ...
A list of popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican as of 2024. A papal name or pontificial name is the regnal name taken by a pope.Both the head of the Catholic Church, usually known as the pope, and the pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (Coptic pope) choose papal names.
In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis). [1] In 2024, Pope Francis reinstated the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis), reversing the decision by the previous Pope Benedict XVI; the title reinstatement was meant to bring closer ties to the other Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox faith.
4 from Greece (Pope Anacletus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Eleutherius, and Pope Sixtus II) 3 from the Holy Land (Saint Peter, Pope Evaristus, and Pope Theodore I) 3 from Tunisia (Pope Miltiades, Pope Victor I and Pope Gelasius) 2 from Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia (Pope Caius and Pope John IV) 2 from Anatolia in modern-day Turkey (Pope John VI and ...
The most recently reigning Pope to have been canonised was Pope John Paul II, whose cause for canonisation was opened in May 2005. John Paul II was beatified on 1 May 2011, by Pope Benedict XVI and later canonised, along with Pope John XXIII, by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014. [1] Pope Francis also canonised Pope Paul VI on 14 October 2018.
Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop of Rome. They are typically ordained bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman ...