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  2. List of popes - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. History of the papacy - Wikipedia

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    The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Africans 1418–1839 (Georg Olms Verlag, 2017). Aradi, Zsolt. The Popes: The History Of How They Are Chosen Elected And Crowned (1955) online; Bauer, Stefan. (2020): The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform. Oxford ...

  4. Papacy in early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Saint Peter, the first Pope, with the Keys of Heaven.By Francesco del Cossa, currently at the Pinacoteca di Brera.. Papacy in early Christianity was the period in papal history between 30 AD, when according to Catholic doctrine, Saint Peter effectively assumed his pastoral role as the Visible Head of the Church, until the pontificate of Miltiades, in 313, when Peace in the Church began.

  5. Papal selection before 1059 - Wikipedia

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    Fabian was reputedly selected as bishop because a dove landed on him, the first historical reference to a method of papal succession.. The selection of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, prior to the promulgation of In Nomine Domini in AD 1059 varied throughout history.

  6. History of papal primacy - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church currently considers these the successors of Peter, whom they consider the first pope, and through whom following popes would claim authority. [ 12 ] The evolution of earlier tradition established both Peter and Paul as the forefathers of the bishops of Rome, from whom they received their position as chief shepherd (Peter ...

  7. Papal appointment - Wikipedia

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    According to Catholic doctrine, Jesus appointed Saint Peter as the first pope. Papal appointment was a medieval method of selecting the Pope. Popes have always been selected by a council of Church fathers; however, Papal selection before 1059 was often characterized by confirmation or nomination by secular European rulers or by the preceding ...

  8. Saint Peter - Wikipedia

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    Church tradition ascribes the epistles First and Second Peter to the Apostle Peter, as does the text of Second Peter itself, an attribution rejected by scholarship. First Peter [117] says the author is in "Babylon", which has been held to be a coded reference to Rome. [194] [195] [196] Early Church tradition reports that Peter wrote from Rome ...

  9. Pope Francis - Wikipedia

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    Pope Francis [b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [c] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope ...