Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: [1] Stephen II (752–757), Paul I (757–767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), [2] and Benedict XIII (1724–1730).
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.
Papal name. A list of popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, minus Benedict XVI who was buried in St. Peter's on January of 2023. 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 ...
The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Church since the tenure of Pope Siricius. There have been 266 popes, as listed by the Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook) under the heading 'I Sommi Pontefici Romani' (The Supreme Pontiffs of Rome). Some sources quote a number of 267, with the inclusion of Stephen II, who died ...
Patriarch Bechara Boutros Cardinal al-Rahi. 2011. Antioch, Alexandria & Jerusalem of the Greek Melkites. Patriarch Youssef Absi. 2017. Babylon of the Chaldeans. Catholicos-Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. 2013. Cilicia of the Armenians.
French Pope Clement V. Pope Silvester II (999–1003): Gerbert of Aurillac. Pope Urban II (1088–1099): Otho of Lagery (or Otto or Odo) Pope Urban IV (1261–1264): Jacques Pantaléon. Pope Clement IV (1265–1268): Guy Foulques. Pope Martin IV (1281–1285): Simon de Brie. Pope Clement V (1305–1314): Bertrand de Got.
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.
Pope Pius IV (31 March 1499 – December 9, 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was pope from 1559 to 1565. However, he was only distantly related to the other Medici popes. [5] Pope Leo XI (June 2, 1535 – April 27, 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was pope from April 1, 1605, to April 27 of the same year. [6]