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| x Pope Linus |
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Saint Linus (d. ca. 76) was, according to several early sources, Bishop of Rome after Saint Peter. This makes Linus either the second Bishop of Rome, if Peter is seen as the first, or as the first Bishop of Rome, if the position of Peter in Rome is...
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| x Pope Alexander IV |
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Pope Alexander IV (1199 or ca. 1185 – May 25, 1261) was Pope from 1254 until his death.
Born as Rinaldo di Jenne, in Jenne, near Anagni, he was, on his mother's side, a member of the de' Conti di Segni family, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent...
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| x Pope Alexander VII |
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Pope Alexander VII (13 February 1599 – 22 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from 7 April 1655, until his death.
Born in Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V (1605–1621), he was privately...
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| x Pope Alexander VIII |
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Pope Alexander VIII (22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 1689 to 1691.
Pietro Ottoboni was born of a noble Venetian family, and was the son of Marco Ottoboni, chancellor of the Republic of Venice. His early...
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| x Pope Alexander VI |
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Pope Alexander 6 (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) (Spanish: Alejandro VI, Catalan: Alexandre VI), born Roderic Llançol, later Roderic de Borja i Borja (Italian: Rodrigo Borgia) was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the...
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| x Pope Alexander II |
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Alexander II (died April 21, 1073), born Anselmo da Baggio, was Pope from 1061 to 1073.
He was born in Milan. As bishop of Lucca he had been an energetic coadjutor with Hildebrand in endeavouring to suppress simony, and to enforce the celibacy of...
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| x Pope Alexander III |
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Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – August 30, 1181), born Rolando (or Orlando) of Siena, was Pope from 1159 to 1181. He is noted in history for laying the foundation stone for the Notre Dame de Paris.
He was born in Siena. From 14th century he is...
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| x Pope Alexander I |
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Pope Saint Alexander I was Bishop of Rome from about 106 to 115. The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio (2008) identifies him as a Roman who reigned from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or...
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| x Pope Leo III |
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Pope Saint Leo III (died June 12, 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him as Roman Emperor.
Leo, who came from a common-folk...
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| x Pope Adrian I |
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Pope Adrian, or Hadrian I, (died December 25 795) was pope from February 1, 772 to December 25, 795. He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman.
Soon after his accession, the territory ruled by the popes was invaded by Desiderius, king of the...
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| x Pope John Paul II |
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The Venerable Pope John Paul II (Polish: Jan Paweł II, Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (pronounced [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔi̯ˈtɨwa] ( listen); 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the...
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| x Pope John XXIII |
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Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes PP. XXIII; Italian: Giovanni XXIII), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (25 November, 1881 – 3 June, 1963), known as Blessed John XXIII since his beatification, was elected as the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic...
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| x Pope Pius XII |
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The Venerable Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII; Italian: Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2...
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| x Pope John II |
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Pope John II (born Mercurius) was pope from 533 to 535.
He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill. He was made pope January 2, 533. The basilica of St. Clement still retains...
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| x Pope Agapetus I |
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Pope Saint Agapetus I (died 22 April 536) reigned as pope from 535 to 536.
Agapetus was born in Rome, although his exact date of birth is unknown. He was the son of Gordianus, a Roman priest who had been slain during the riots in the days of Pope...
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| x Pope Agatho |
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Pope Saint Agatho (c. 577 – January 10 681), was pope from June 27 678 to January 10 681.
A Greek born in Sicily of wealthy and devout parents, he allegedly gave away his inheritance after their death and retired to a monastery in Palermo. This...
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| x Pope-elect Stephen |
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Stephen was a priest of Rome elected Pope in March of 752 to succeed St. Zachary; he died of apoplexy (stroke) three days later, before being ordained a bishop. He was a cardinal presbyter, with the titulus of San Crisogono (the same titulus as...
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| x Pope Stephen II |
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Pope Stephen II (d. April 26 757) was a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (752 - 757).
The Lombards to the north of Rome had captured Ravenna, former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire exarchate, in 751, and began to put pressure on Rome. Relations...
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| x Pope Adrian II |
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Adrian II (also known as Hadrian II), (792–872), pope from December 14, 867 to December 14, 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced age.
He maintained, but with less energy, the attitude of his predecessor...
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| x Pope Adrian III |
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Pope Saint Adrian III (also known as Hadrian III) was Pope from May 17 884 to September, 885. He was born at Rome. He died in September, 885, at San Cesario sul Panaro (Modena), on a journey to Worms, in modern Germany.
His brief pontificate came...
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| x Pope Agapetus II |
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Agapetus II (born in Rome; died October, 955) was Pope from May 10 946 until his death in 955, at the time when Alberic II (932–954), son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of Rome under the title of "Dux and Senator of the Romans."...
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| x Pope Adrian IV |
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Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100–1 September 1159), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.
Adrian IV is the only Englishman who has occupied the papal chair. It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at...
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| x Pope Adrian V |
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Pope Adrian V (c. 1210/20 – August 18, 1276), born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was Pope in 1276.
Ottobuono belonged to a feudal family of Liguria, the Fieschi, Counts of Lavagna.
His first clerical position came in 1243, when he was created a papal...
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| x Pope John XXI |
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Pope John XXI (1215 – May 20, 1277; Portuguese: Papa João XXI), born Pedro Julião (Latin, Petrus Iulianus), a Portuguese also called Pedro Hispano (Latin, Petrus Hispanus), was Pope from 1276 until his death about eight months later. He was the only...
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| x Pope Adrian VI |
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Pope Adrian VI (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from 9 January 1522 until his death some 18 months later. He was the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II, 456 years later. He is,...
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| x Pope Anastasius III |
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Anastasius III (died June 913) was Pope from April 911 to June 913, was a Roman by birth. A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius...
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| x Pope Anastasius IV |
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Pope Anastasius IV (born ca. 1073, died 3 December 1154), born Corrado Demetri della Suburra, was Pope from 1153 to 1154.
He was a Roman, son of Benedictus de Suburra, probably of the family of Demetri, and became a secular clerk. He was created...
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| x Pope Anastasius II |
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Pope Anastasius II was pope from November 24 496 to November 19 498.
Anastasius II was Pontiff in the time of the schism of Acacius. He showed some tendency towards conciliation, and thus brought upon himself the lively reproaches of the author of...
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| x Pope Anastasius I |
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Pope Saint Anastasius I was born in Rome, the son of Maximus was pope from November 27, 399 to 401.
He condemned the writings of the Alexandrian theologian Origen shortly after their translation into Latin, he had to fight against these writings...
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| x Pope Damasus I |
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Pope Saint Damasus I was Pope from 366 to 384.
He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha (in Lusitania, Hispania), in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco (also in Lusitania, now Central Portugal),...
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| x Pope Honorius I |
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Pope Honorius I (died October 12 638) was pope from 625 to 638.
Honorius, according to the Liber Pontificalis, came from Campania and was the son of the consul Petronius. He became pope on October 27 625, two days after the death of his predecessor,...
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| x Pope Honorius II |
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Pope Honorius II (died February 13, 1130), born Lamberto Scannabecchi (from 1117 Cardinal Lambert of Ostia), was pope from December 21, 1124, to February 13, 1130.
Lamberto came from a simple rural background at Fiagnano Castle, in Casalfiumanese...
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| x Pope Honorius III |
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Pope Honorius III (1148 – March 18, 1227), born with the name Cencio, was Pope from 1216 to 1227.
He was born in Rome as son of Aimerico. He is often listed as member of Roman Savelli family, but this is disputed.
For a time he was canon at the...
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| x Pope Honorius IV |
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Pope Honorius IV (c. 1210 – April 3, 1287), born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287. During his unremarkable pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French policy of his predecessor, Pope Martin IV (1281–85). He was...
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| x Pope Martin I |
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Pope Saint Martin I, born near Todi, Umbria in the place now named after him Pian S. Martino, was pope from 649 to 653, succeeding Theodore I in July 649. The only pope during the Byzantine Papacy whose election was not approved by an iussio from...
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| x Pope Martin IV |
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Pope Martin IV (between 1210 and 1220 – March 28, 1285), born Simon de Brion, held the papacy from February 21, 1281 until his death.
Simon de Brion, son of Jean, sieur de Brion, was born at the château of Meinpicien in the province of Touraine,...
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| x Pope Martin V |
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Pope Martin V (c. 1368 – February 20, 1431), born Odo (or Oddone) Colonna was Pope from 1417 to 1431. His election effectively ended the Western Schism (1378–1417).
The son of Agapito Colonna and Caterina Conti, he belonged to one of the oldest and...
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| x Pope Marinus I |
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Marinus I (or Martin II), Pope between December 16 882 and May 15 884. He succeeded John VIII in about the end of December 882.
Before becoming Pope, he served as Bishop of Caere, which made his election controversial, because, at this stage of...
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| x Pope Marinus II |
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Marinus II (or Martin III), born in Rome, was Pope from 942 to 946. He was elevated to the papacy through intervention of Alberic II (932–954) of Spoleto and concentrated on administrative aspects of the papacy.
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| x Pope Marcellus I |
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Pope Saint Marcellus I, pope from May 308 to 309, succeeded Marcellinus, after a considerable interval, most probably in May or June 308.
Under Maxentius he was banished from Rome in 309 on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the...
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| x Pope Marcellus II |
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Pope Marcellus II (6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi was Pope from 9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555, succeeding Pope Julius III. Before his accession as Pope he had been Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He was...
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| x Pope Miltiades |
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Pope Saint Miltiades, also called Melchiades (Μελχιάδης ὁ Ἀφρικανός in Greek), was pope from 2 July 311 to 10 January 314.
He appears to have been a Berber African by birth, but of his personal history nothing is known.
His elections marked the end...
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| x Pope Benedict I |
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Pope Benedict I was pope from June 2 575 to July 30 579.
Benedict was the son of a man named Bonifacius, and was called Bonosus by the Greeks. The ravages of the Lombards rendered it very difficult to communicate with the Byzantine emperor at...
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| x Pope Benedict II |
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Pope Saint Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685.
He succeeded Leo II. Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the leave of Emperor Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election. According to Liber Diurnus...
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| x Pope Benedict III |
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Benedict III was Pope from September 29 855 to April 17 858.
Little is known of Benedict's life before his papacy. He was educated and lived in Rome and was cardinal priest of S. Callisto at the time of his election. Benedict had a reputation for...
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| x Pope Benedict V |
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Benedict V (born in Rome; died July 4 966), Pope in 964, was elected by the Romans on the death of Pope John XII (955–964). However the Roman Emperor Otto I (936–973) did not approve of the choice and had him deposed after only a month (according to...
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| x Pope Benedict VI |
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Benedict VI (died June, 974) was Pope from January 19 973 to June, 974.
He was born in Rome as the son of Hildebrand and was chosen with great ceremony and installed as Pope under the protection of the Emperor Otto I (936–973) on January 19 973....
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| x Pope Benedict VII |
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Benedict VII (born in Rome, the son of David, and previously Bishop of Sutri; died July 10 983) belonged to the noble family of the counts of Tusculum. He was elected by the Roman clergy and people under the influence of Sicco, imperial envoy of...
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| x Pope Benedict VIII |
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Benedict VIII (died April 9, 1024), born Theophylactus, Pope from 1012 to 1024, of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum (son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and Maria, and brother of future Pope John XIX), descended from Theophylact, Count of...
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| x Pope Benedict IX |
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Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – c.1085), born Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048. One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the...
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| x Pope Benedict XI |
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Pope Blessed Benedict XI (1240 – July 7, 1304), born Nicola Boccasini, was Pope from 1303 to 1304.
Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), but was unable to carry out his policies. Benedict XI was a Dominican and when he was...
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| x Pope Benedict XII |
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Pope Benedict XII (died April 24, 1342), born Jacques Fournier, was Pope from 1334 to 1342.
Little is known of the origins of Jacques Fournier. He is believed to have been born in Saverdun in the Comté de Foix around the 1280s to a family of modest...
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| x Pope Benedict XIII |
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Pope Benedict XIII (2 February 1649 – 21 February 1730), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was pope from 1724 until his death. He succeeded Pope Innocent XIII (1721–1724).
He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III...
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| x Pope Benedict XIV |
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Pope Benedict XIV (31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.
He was born into a noble family of Bologna, which was at that time the second largest city in the Papal States.He was...
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| x Pope John Paul I |
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Pope John Paul I (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. I, Italian: Giovanni Paolo I), born Albino Luciani, (17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33...
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| x Pope Paul VI |
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Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. Succeeding...
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| x Pope Boniface I |
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Pope Saint Boniface I was pope from December 28 418 to September 4 422. He was a contemporary of Saint Augustine of Hippo, who dedicated to him some of his works.
On the death of Pope Zosimus, two parties put forward their own candidate for Pope,...
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| x Pope Boniface II |
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Pope Boniface II was pope from 530 to 532.
He was by birth an Ostrogoth, the first Germanic pope, and he owed his appointment to the influence of the Gothic king Athalaric. Boniface was chosen by his predecessor, Pope Felix IV, who had been a strong...
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| x Pope Boniface III |
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Pope Boniface III was Pope from February 19 to November 12 607. Despite his relatively short time as Pope he made a significant contribution to the organization of the Catholic Church.
The son of John Cataadioce, he was a Roman by birth although of...
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| x Pope Boniface IV |
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Pope Saint Boniface IV (c. 550 – May 25, 615) was pope from 608 to his death.
Son of Johannes, a physician, a Marsian from the province and town of Valeria; he succeeded Boniface III after a vacancy of over nine months. He was consecrated on either...
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