Popes

Popes

The heads of the Catholic Church.

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Innocent XII

People; Popes

242nd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1691 - 1700. Innocent XII was the last pope to have a beard in the modern era. Innocent XII declared against the nepotism which had too much and too ...

Clement XI

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243rd Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1700 - 1721. Soon after his accession, the War of Spanish Succession broke out. He was forced to make certain alliances to keep fighting from Rome ...

Innocent XIII

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244th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1721 - 1724. His pontificate was considered largely uneventful. He prosecuted the Jesuits and the mission in China.

245th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1724 - 1730. He endeavored to put a stop to the decadent lifestyles of the Italian priesthood and of the cardinalate. He also abolished the lottery in ...

Clement XII

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246th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1730 - 1740. Prior to papacy, Clement was a lawyer, with a degree from the University of Pisa, who had practiced law under the able direction of his ...

Benedict XIV

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247th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1740 - 1758. He had a very active papacy, reforming the education of priests, the calendar of feasts of the Church, and many papal institutions. ...

Clement XIII

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248th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1758 - 1769. Clement XIII's pontificate was disturbed by perpetual contentions respecting the pressures to suppress the Jesuits coming from the ...