Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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231st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1592 - 1605. During the jubilee of 1600, three million pilgrims visited the holy places. The Synod of Brest was held 1595 in Lithuania, by which a great ...

Gregory XV

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234th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1621 - 1623. He was a learned theologian and manifested a reforming spirit; his papal bull of 15 November 1621, Aeterni Patris, regulated papal ...

Leo XI

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232nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1605 - 1605 (26 days). He ascended the papal throne with the name Leo XI after his uncle Pope Leo X, being then almost seventy years of age, but was ...

St Fabian

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20th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 236 - 250. Feast day 20 January. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 5 August. Place of birth: Rome.

Pius VI

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250th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1775 - 1799. Condemned the French Revolution and was expelled from the Papal States by French troops from 1798 until his death. He is best remembered in ...

Clement IX

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238th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1667 - 1669. Clement IX worked to strengthen Venetian defences against the Turks on the island of Crete. Clement IX continued his interest in the arts. ...

Leo XII

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252nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1823 - 1829. His election as pope had been facilitated because he was thought to be at death's door; but he unexpectedly rallied. Leo XII's domestic ...