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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.
Iskandar Muda (1583? [ 1 ] – 27 December 1636 [ 2 ] ) was the twelfth Sultan of Acèh Darussalam , under whom the sultanate achieved its greatest territorial extent, holding sway as the strongest power and wealthiest state in the western Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca .
Pedro Berruguete, Portrait of Sixtus IV (c. 1500), oil on canvas, 70.2×51.4 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art. Pope Sixtus IV (or Xystus IV, [1] Italian: Sisto IV; born Francesco della Rovere; 21 July 1414 – 12 August 1484) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 August 1471 until his death.
[9] The Pope set no limit to his plans, and achieved much in his short pontificate, always carried through at top speed: the completion of the dome of St. Peter's; the loggia of Sixtus in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano; the chapel of the Praesepe in Santa Maria Maggiore; additions or repairs to the Quirinal, Lateran and Vatican ...
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Born in 1244, Jacques was the son of Arnaud Duèze, [1] who was probably a Cahorsin merchant or banker. [2] He studied canon law at Montpellier and theology in Paris. [3] Jacques taught civil law at Cahors and later canon law at Toulouse. [4]
The Order of Pope Pius IX (Italian: Ordine di Pio IX), also referred as the Pian Order (Italian: Ordine Piano, pronounced), is a papal order of knighthood originally founded by Pope Pius IV in 1560. Currently, it is the highest honor conferred by the Holy See (being the Order of Christ and the Order of the Golden Spur currently dormant).
Pope Macarius III of Alexandria (Abba Macari III) was 114th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. Before becoming a pope, he was the Metropolitan of Asyut in Egypt.