Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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220th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1534 - 1549. He came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the ...

Pius III

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215th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1503 - 1503 (26 days). This selection of Pius III to papacy was said to be a compromise between factions, Borgia and della Rovere, picking a frail ...

Julius II

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216th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1503 - 1513. Nephew of Sixtus IV; Convened the Fifth Council of the Lateran, 1512. Took effective control of the whole territory of the Papal States for ...

Clement VII

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219th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1523 - 1534. Cousin of Leo X. Rome plundered by imperial troops ("Sacco di Roma"), 1527. He forbade the divorce of Henry VIII and crowned Charles V ...

Alexander VI

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214th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1492 - 1503. Nephew of Callixtus III. Father to Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia. Divided the extra-European world between Spain and Portugal in 1493 ...

Adrian VI

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218th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1522 - 1523. The only Dutch pope also knew as German Pope. Last non-Italian to be elected pope until John Paul II in 1978. The tutor of Emperor Charles ...

Leo X

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217th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1513 - 1521. Son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Excommunicated Martin Luther. Extended the Spanish Inquisition into Portugal.