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Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Africans 1418–1839 (Georg Olms Verlag, 2017). Aradi, Zsolt. The Popes: The History Of How They Are Chosen Elected And Crowned (1955) online; Bauer, Stefan. (2020): The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform. Oxford ...
Catholics hold that Saint Peter was Rome's first bishop and the consecrator of Linus as its next bishop, thus starting the unbroken line which includes the current pontiff, Pope Francis. That is, the Catholic Church maintains the apostolic succession of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope – the successor to Saint Peter. [12]
On 4 October 2023, Francis convened the beginnings of the Synod on Synodality which was described as the culmination of his papacy and the most important event in the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council. [4] [15] [16] Pope Francis is the first pope to publish a memoir, Hope, which was released on 14 January 2025. [17]
However, a Catholic publication, Our Sunday Visitor, did admit to the title being inscribed on a tiara. [43] Catholic scholar, professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America, Dr Johannes Quasten (1900–1987), stated that "The title Vicarius Filii Dei as well as the title vicarius christi is very common as the title of the pope". [44]
The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus personally appointed Peter as the visible head of the Church, [e] and the Catholic Church's dogmatic constitution Lumen gentium makes a clear distinction between apostles and bishops, presenting the latter as the successors of the former, with the pope as successor of Peter, in that he is head of the ...
Saint Peter, the first Pope, with the Keys of Heaven.By Francesco del Cossa, currently at the Pinacoteca di Brera.. Papacy in early Christianity was the period in papal history between 30 AD, when according to Catholic doctrine, Saint Peter effectively assumed his pastoral role as the Visible Head of the Church, until the pontificate of Miltiades, in 313, when Peace in the Church began.
The Catholic Church speaks of the pope, the bishop of Rome, as the successor of Saint Peter. This is often interpreted to imply that Peter was the first Bishop of ...