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His name would become Francis I if and when there is a Francis II. [ 163 ] [ 168 ] It is the first time since Lando 's 913–914 pontificate that a serving pope holds a name not used by a predecessor.
In 2013, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff paid a visit to the Vatican to attend the inauguration of Pope Francis, the first Latin and South American Pope. [1] In July 2013, Pope Francis paid a 5-day visit to Brazil, his first Papal voyage after becoming Pope in March 2013. [4] In February 2014, President Rousseff paid a second visit to the ...
The transition to independence in Brazil was made easier and less divisive than in Spanish America, since a member of the royal Braganza family became the Brazilian monarch. According to one account, a churchman was the first to publicly "proclaim Pedro king of Brazil". [7]
Coat of Arms of the Holy See. This page is a list of popes by country of origin. They are listed in chronological order within each section. As the office of pope has existed for almost two millennia, many of the countries of origin of popes no longer exist, and so they are grouped under their modern equivalents.
Pope Francis signs some documents with his name alone, either in Latin ("Franciscus", as in an encyclical dated 29 June 2013) [176] or in another language. [177] Other documents he signs in accordance with the tradition of using Latin only and including the abbreviated form "PP.", for the Latin Papa ("Pope"). [ 178 ]
This expedition became the basis of Portuguese claims to the islands. In 1344, the Castilian-French noble Luis de la Cerda (Count of Clermont and Admiral of France), and French ambassador to the papal court in Avignon, proposed to Pope Clement VI, conquering the islands and converting the native Guanches to Christianity. [5]
Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
The Pope, claiming dominium mundi, struggled to maintain control over his capital. The situation escalated when, in 1157, at the Diet of Besançon, where the Pope's legate, Orlando Bandinelli (later Pope Alexander III), stated that "Rome is so well disposed towards Frederick that it would grant him even greater beneficia".