ROMAN CATHOLIC POPES

The religious leader of the Roman Catholic church known as the pope or the bishop of Rome. He is elected by the College of Cardinals, which as a group, standing beside the Pope in ecclesiastical authority. New potatoes are selected on death or retirement of a current pope. Will elect a new pope must be named in two - thirds vote, and each member of the College of Cardinals to vote. Once elected, a pope should be asked by the dean of cardinals, if he accepts the position. If you do, you will be prompted to choose a name. The custom of a pope who changed his name to the election occurred shortly before the 1000th

The following list contains all the popes of the Catholic Church, beginning with Peter the Apostle, traditionally regarded as the first pope, when he was appointed by Jesus and his role in the organization of the Church. Also included in this list - called anti-popes who were elected or affirmed that the pope on several occasions during the church's history, but whose views were later invalidated potatoes are recognized in bold; ANTIPOP names appear on the standard rate. The list contains names of the popes, the year of his Pontificate, and the original names of those who changed their names to the election. Spelling of names are in parentheses.

There have been 265 people who have valid reasons to be pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Of these 74 were later given the sacred, and as cited in this list. Within Orthodoxy, there have been (other) people who have been considered or popes or patriarchs, and the lists are presented separately.

First Century

San Pedro (C.33-67 CE)

Linus (67-76)

Anacleto (76-88)

Clemens I (88-97)

Evaristo (97-105)

Second Century

Alexander I (105-15)

Sixtus I (115-25)

Telesforo (125-36)

Hyginus (136-40)

Pius I (140-55)

Aniceto (155-66)

Soter (166-75)

Eleuterio (175-89)

Victor I (189-99)

Ceferino (199-217)

Third century

Calixto 1 (217-22)

Urban I (222-30)

Hippolytus of Rome ((222-35)

Pontian (230-35)

Antero (235-36)

Fabian (236-50)

Cornelius (251-53)

Novatian (? 251-58)

Lucius I (253-54)

Stephen I (254-57)

Sixtus II (257-58)

Dionysius (259-68)

Felix I (269-74)

Eutychianus (275-83)

Gaius (283-96)

Marcellinus (296-304)

Fourth Century

Marcellus I (308-09)

Eusebio (309-10)

Miltiades (311-14)

Sylvester I (314-35)

Marcus (336-36)

Julius I (337-52)

Liberius (352-66)

Felix II (353-65)

Damasus I (366-84)

Ursinus (366-67)

Silicon (384-99)

Anastasius I (399-401)

Fifth Century

Innocent I (401-17)

Zozimus (417-18)

Boniface I (418-22)

Eulalio ((418-19)

Celestine I (422-32)

Sixtus III (432-40)

Leo I (440-61)

Hilary (461-68)

Simplicius (468-83)

Felux III (II) (483-92)

Gelasius I (492-96)

Anastasius II (496-98)

Symmachus (498-514)

Lorenzo (498-505)

Sixth century

Hormuz (514-23)

John I (523-26)

Felix IV (III) (526-30)

Boniface II (530-32)

Dioscorus (530)

John II (533-35)

Agapito I (535-36)

Silverio (536-37)

Vigilius (537-55)

Pelagius I (556-61)

John III (561-74)

Benedict I (575-79)

Pelagius II (579-90)

Gregory I (590-604)

Seventh century

Sabiniano (604-6)

Boniface III (607-7)

Boniface IV (608-15)

Deusdedit (Adeodato) (615-18)

Boniface V (619-25)

Hononus I (625-38)

Severino (640-40)

John IV (640-42)

Theodore I (642-49)

Martin I (649-55)

Eugene I (654-57)

Vitaliano (657-72)

Adeodato II (672-76)

Dono (676-78)

Agathon (678-81)

Leo II (682-83)

Benedict II (684-85)

John V (685-86)

Conon (686-87)

Theodore II (687)

Paschal I (687-92)

Sergius I (687-701)

Eighth century

John VI (701-5)

John VII (705-7)

Sisinio (708-8)

Constantine (708-15)

Gregory II (715-31)

Gregory III (731-41)

Zacharias (741-52)

Stephen II (752-52)

Paul I (757-67)

Constantine (767)

Felipe (767)

Stephen III (768-72)

Adrian I (772-95)

Leo III (795-816)

Ninth century

Stephen IV (816-17)

Paschal I (817-24)

Eugene II (824-27)

Valentine (827)

Gregory IV (827-44)

John VIII (844)

Sergius II (844-47)

Leo IV (847-55)

Benedict III (855-58)

Anastasius III (855)

Nicholas I (858-67)

Adrian II (867-72)

John VIII (872-82)

Marinus I (882-84)

Adrian III (884-85)

Stephen V (VI) (885-91)

Formoso (891-96)

Boniface VI (896-96)

Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)

Roman (897-97)

Theodore II (897-97)

John IX (898-900)

Tenth Century

Benedict IV (900-3)

Leo V (903)

Christopher (903-4)

Sergius III (904-11)

Anastasius III (911-13)

Lando (913-14)

John X (914-28)

Leo VI (928)

Stephen VII (928-31)

John XI (931-35)

Leo VII (936-39)

Stephen VIII (IX) (939-42)

Marinus II (942-46)

Agapito II (946-55)

John XII (955-64)

Leo VIII (963-65)

Benedict V (964-66)

John XIII (965-72)

Benedict VI (973-74)

Benedict VII (974-83)

John XIV (983-84)

Boniface VII (984-5)

John XV (985-96)

Gregory V (996-99)

Sylvester II (999-1003)

Eleventh century

John XVII (1003)

John XVIII (1004-9)

Sergius IV (1009-12)

Benedict VIII (1012-24)

Gregory VI (1012)

John XIX (1024-32)

Benedict IX (1032-44)

Sylvester III (1045)

Gregory VI (1045-46) (John Gratian Pierleoni)

Clement II (1046-47) (Suitgar, Earl of Morsleben)

Damasus II (1048) (Count Poppo)

Leo IX (1049-54) (Bruno, Count of Toul)

Victor II (1055-57) (Gebhard, Count of Hirschberg)

Stephen IX (X) (1057-58) (Frederick of Lorraine)

Nicholas II (1059-61) (Gerhard of Burgundy)

Alexander II (1061-73) (Anselmo da Baggio)

Honorius II (1061-64)

Gregory VII (1073-85) (Hildebrand of Soana)

Clement III (1080-1100)

Victor III (1086-87) (Desiderio, Prince of Benevento)

Urban II (1088-99) (Odo de Chatillon)

Paschal II (1099-1118) (Ranieri da Bieda)

Theodoric (1100-2)

Albert (1102)

Sylvester IV (1105)

Twelfth Century

Gelasius II (1118-19) (John Coniolo)

Gregory VIII (1118-21)

Callixtus II (1119-24) (Guido of Burgundy)

Honorius II (1124-30) (Lamberto dei Fagnani)

Celestine II (1124)

Innocent II (1130-43) (Papareschi)

Anacleto II (1130-38) (Cardinal Pierleone)

Victor IV (1138)

Ceiestine II (1143-44) (Guido di Castello)

Lucius II (1144-45) (Gherardo Caccianemici)

Eugene III (1145-53) (Bernardo Paganelli)

Anastasius IV (1153-54) (Corrado della subArr)

Adrian IV, (1154-59) (Nicholas Breakspear)

Alexander III (1159-81) (Orlando Bandinelli)

Victor IV (1159-64)

Paschal III (1164-68)

Callixtus III (1168-78)

Innocent III (1179-80) (Lando da Sessa)

Lucius III (1181-85) (Ubaldo Allucingoli)

Urban III (1185-87) (Uberto Crivelli)

Gregory VIII (1187) (Alberto del Morro)

Clement III (1187-91) (Paolo Scolari)

Celestine III (1191-98) (Giacinto Boboni-Orsini)

Innocent III (1198-1216) (Lothario de Conti di Segni)

Thirteenth century

Honorius III (1216-27) (Cencio Savelli)

Gregory IX (1227-41) (Ugolino di Segni)

Celestine IV (1241) (Goffredo Castiglione)

Innocent IV (1243-54) (Sinibaldo of Fieschi)

Alexander IV (1254-61) (Rinaldo Segni)

Urban IV (1261-64) (Jacques PantalŽon)

Clement IV (1265-68) (Guy Le Gros Fulk)

Gregory X (1271-76) (Theobald Visconti)

Innocent V (1276) (Pierre de Champagnie)

Adrianv (1276) (Otto Bono Fieschi)

John XXI (1276-77) (Pietro Rebuli-Giuliani)

Nicholas III (1277-80) (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini)

Martin IV (1281-85) (Simon Mompitie)

Honorius IV (1285-87) (Giacomo Savelli)

Nicholas IV (1288-92) (Girolamo Masci)

Celestine V (1294) (Pietro da Angelari Murron)

Boniface VIII (1294-1303) (Benedetto Gaetani)

Fourteenth century

Benedict XI (1303-04) (Niccol ~ Boccasini)

Clement V (1305-14) (Bertrand de Got Raimond

John XXII (1316-34) (Jacques Dueze)

Nicholas V (Pietro di Corbara)

Benedict XII (1334-42) (Jacques Fournier)

Clement VI (1342-52) (Pierre Roger de Beaufort)

Innocent VI (1352-62) (ƒtienne Aubert)

Urban V (1362-70) (Guillaume de Grimord)

Gregory XI (1370-78) (Pierre Roger de Beaufort, the Younger)

Urban VI (1378-89) (Bartolomeo Prignano)

Clement VII (1378-94) (Robert of Geneva,)

Boniface IX (1389-1404) (Pietro Tomacelli)

Benedict XIII (1394-1423) (Pedro de Luna)

Fifteenth century

Innocent VII (1404-6) (Cosmatos of Migliorati)

Gregory XII (1406-15) (Angelo Correr)

Alexander V (1409-10) (Petros Philargi)

John XXIII (1410-15) (Baldassare Cossa)

Martin V (1417-31) (Ottone Colonna)

Clement VIII (1423-29)

Benedict XIV (1424)

Eugene IV (1431-47) (Gabriele Condulmer)

Felix V (1439-49) (Amadeo)

Nicholas V (1447-55) (Tommaso Parentucelli)

Callixtus III (1455-58) (Alonso Borgia)

Pius II (1458-64) (in Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini)

Paul II (1464-71) (Pietro Barbo)

Sixtus IV (1471-84) (Francesco della Rovere)

Innocent VIII (1484-92) (Giovanni Battista Cibo)

Alexander VI (1492-1503) (Rodrigo Borgia and threw it)

Sixteenth century

Pius III (1503) (Francesco Todoeschini-Piccolomini)

Julius II (1503-13) (Giuliano della Rovere)

Leo X (1513-21) (Giovanni de Medici)

Adrian VI (1522-23) (Adriano Florensz)

Clement VII (1523-34) (Giulio de Medici)

Paul III (1534-49) (Alessandro Farnese)

Julius III (1550-55) (Ciocchi Giovanni Maria del Monte)

Marcellus II (1555) (Marcello Cervini)

Paul IV (1555-59) (Gian Pietro Carafa)

Pius IV (1559-65) (Giovanni Angelo de Medici)

Pius V (1566-72) (Antonio Michele Ghislieri)

Gregory XIII (1572-85) (Ugo Buoncompagni)

Sixtus V (1585-90) (Felice Peretti)

Urban VII (1590) (Giambattista Castagna)

Gregory XIV (1590-91) (Niccol ~ Sfondrati)

Innocent IX (1591) (Gian Antonio Facchinetti)

Clement VIII (1592-1605) (Ippolito Aldobrandini)

Seventeenth century

Leo XI (1605) (Alessandro de Medici Ottaiano)

Paul V (1605-21) (Camillo Borghese)

Gregory XV (1621-23) (Alessandro Ludovisi)

Urban VIII (1623-44) (Maffeo Barberini)

Innocent X (1644-55) (Giambattista Pamfili)

Aleandro VII (1655-67) (Fabio Chigi)

Clement IX (1667-69) (Giulio Rospigliosi)

Clement X (1670-76) (Emilio Altieri)

Innocent XI (1676-89) (Benedetto Odescalchi)

Alexander VIII (1689-91) (Pietro Ottoboni)

Innocent XII (1691-1700) (Antonio Pignatelli)

Eighteenth Century

Clement XI (1700-21) (Gian Francesco Albani)

Innocent XIII (1721-24) (Michelangelo dei Conti)

Benedict XIII (1724-30) (Pietro Francesco Orsini)

Clement XII (1730-40) (Lorenzo Corsini)

Benedict XIV (1740-58) (Prospero Lambertini)

Clement XIII (1758-69) (Carlo Rezzonico)

Clement XIV (1769-74) (Lorenzo Ganganelli)

Pius VI (1775-99) (Gianangelo Braschi)

Nineteenth century

Pius VII (1800-23) (Barnaba Chiaramonti)

Leo XII (1823-29) (Annibale della Genga)

Pius VIII (1829-30) (Francesco Saverio Gastiglioni)

Gregory XVI (1831-46) (Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari)

Pius IX (1846-78) (Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti)

Leo XIII (1878-1903) (Gioacchino Pecci)

Twentieth Century

Pius X (1903-14) (Giuseppe Sarto)

Benedict XV (1914-22) (Giacomo della Chiesa)

Pius XI (1922-39) (Achille Ratti)

Pius XII (1939-58) (Eugenio Pacelli)

John XXIII (1958-63) (Angelo Roncalli)

Paul VI (1963-78) (Giovanni Battista Montini)

John Paul I (1978) (Albino Luciani)

John Paul II (1978 -) (Karol Jozef Wojtyla)

Twenty-First Century

John Paul II (1978-2005) (Karol Jozef Wojtyla)

Benedict XVI (2005 -) (Joseph Ratzinger)