Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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Sixtus V

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227th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1585 - 1590. His pontificate saw great enterprises and great achievements. He slept little and worked hard. Having inherited a bankrupt treasury, he ...

Urban VII

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228th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1590 - 1590 (12 days). Shortest-reigning pope; died of malaria before coronation.

229th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1590 -1591. Gregory XIV's brief pontificate was marked by vigorous intervention in favor of the Catholic party in the French Wars of Religion. Gregory ...

Innocent IX

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230th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1591 - 1591 (62 days). Prior to his short papacy, he had been a Canon Lawyer, diplomat, and chief administrator during the reign of Pope Gregory XIV. ...

Clement VIII

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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 ...

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 ...

Paul V

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233rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1605 - 1621. Known for building projects, including the facade of St Peter's Basilica, improving the Vatican Library, and restoring the Aqua Traiana, an ...