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Marcellus II
222nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1555 - 1555 (21 days). He is the most recent Pope to choose to retain his birth name as his regnal name upon his accession. After his death, it would be 415 years before another Pope would choose a name with an ordinal number less than IV. Pope Marcellus II ranks sixth on the list of 10 shortest-reigning Popes.
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