Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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St Clement I

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4th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 88/92 - 97. Feast day 23 November. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 25 November.

St Anacletus

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3rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 76/79 - 88/92. Martyred; feast day 26 April. Once erroneously split into Cletus and Anacletus.

255th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1846 - 1878. Opened First Vatican Council; lost the Papal States to Italy. Longest serving pope in history. The Pope defined the dogma of the Immaculate ...

Leo XIII

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256th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1878 - 1903. Issued the encyclical on social teaching, Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) and supported Christian democracy as against communism; the ...

Pius XI

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259th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1922 - 1939. Signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, establishing the Vatican City as a sovereign state. Pius XI is remembered as the pope who reigned ...

Gregory XVI

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254th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1831 - 1846. Member of the Camaldolese Order. The last non-bishop to be elected. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic and ...

St Pius X

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257th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1903 - 1914. Encouraged and expanded reception of Holy Communion. Most recent pope to be canonized.Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic ...