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He is the first pope since Pope Pius X to live outside the papal apartments. [157] Francis still appears at the window of the Apostolic Palace for the Sunday Angelus. [158] As a Jesuit pope, Francis has been "making clear that a fundamental task of the faithful is not so much to follow rules but to discern what God is calling them to do.
The third pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor. Last pope to have been born outside Europe until the election of Francis in 2013. 91 3 December 741 – 22 March 752 (10 years, 110 days) St Zachary ZACHARIAS: Zacharias Sancta Severina, Calabria, Eastern Roman Empire (Eastern) Roman citizen. Was of Greek ethnicity. Feast day 15 ...
From 2002 until he was elected pope, he was also Dean of the College of Cardinals. Before becoming pope, he had been "a major figure on the Vatican stage for a quarter of a century"; he had had an influence "second to none when it came to setting church priorities and directions" as one of John Paul II's closest confidants. [11]
Benedict was 78 and already frail in 2005 when he became pope — the oldest pope elected in almost three centuries — and by Feb. 11, 2013, then 85, he had had enough.
Pope Francis, centre, attends a funeral mass next to the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.
On 31 December 2022, at 09:34 Central European Time , former Pope Benedict XVI died at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City at the age of 95. He had been pope emeritus since his resignation as the leader of the Catholic Church in 2013 due to declining health. His death ended a nine-year period during which an incumbent pope and a ...
Elsewhere, Pope Francis will be taking on controversial topics in his new autobiography, and the late Mac Miller's album Balloonerism will drop at last. Read on for all of this week's biggest ...
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.