Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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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 ...

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 ...

Pius VIII

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253rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1829 - 1830. During his brief pontificate, the Catholic Emancipation occurred in the United Kingdom, and the July Revolution (1830) in France – after ...

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 ...

Pius VII

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251st Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1800 - 1823. Member of the Order of Saint Benedict. Present at Napoleon's coronation as Emperor of the French. Temporarily expelled from the Papal ...

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 XIV

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249th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1769 - 1774. Member of the Conventual Franciscan Order. Suppressed the Jesuit Order. Clement XIV knighted the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart after he ...