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Coat of Arms of the Holy See. This page is a list of popes by country of origin. They are listed in chronological order within each section. As the office of pope has existed for almost two millennia, many of the countries of origin of popes no longer exist, and so they are grouped under their modern equivalents.
4 from Greece (Pope Anacletus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Eleutherius, and Pope Sixtus II) 3 from the Holy Land (Saint Peter, Pope Evaristus, and Pope Theodore I) 3 from Tunisia (Pope Miltiades, Pope Victor I and Pope Gelasius) 2 from Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia (Pope Caius and Pope John IV) 2 from Anatolia in modern-day Turkey (Pope John VI and ...
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.
In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis). [1] In 2024, Pope Francis reinstated the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis), reversing the decision by the previous Pope Benedict XVI; the title reinstatement was meant to bring closer ties to the other Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox faith.
Pope Francis [b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [c] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere , and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope ...
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The title of pope is used in several churches to denote their high spiritual leaders. This category refers only to the popes of the Catholic Church , whose supreme head is the bishop of Rome . Note on numbering of popes: There has never been a Pope Martin II or Pope Martin III .
This is a list of notable persons by nationality. By nationality. Delineating notable nationals of nation-states, and their significant dependent territories.