Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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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 ...

261st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1958 - 1963. Opened Second Vatican Council; John XXIII's personal warmth, good humor and kindness entirely captured the world's affections, therefore he ...

Pius XII

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260th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1939 - 1958. Invoked papal infallibility in encyclical Munificentissimus Deus. Pope during World War II. After World War II Pope Pius XII focused on ...

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 ...

Benedict XV

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258th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1914 - 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social and humanitarian consequences in Europe, however he was ...

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 ...

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 ...