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List of Popes since the year 1000 with common names >>

  1. St. Peter (32-67)

  2. St. Linus (67-76)

  3. St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)

  4. St. Clement I (88-97)

  5. St. Evaristus (97-105

  6. St. Alexander I (105-115)

  7. St. Sixtus I (115-125) -- also called Xystus I

  8. St. Telesphorus (125-136)

  9. St. Hyginus (136-140)

  10. St. Pius I (140-155)

  11. St. Anicetus (155-166)

  12. St. Soter (166-175)

  13. St. Eleutherius (175-189)

  14. St. Victor I (189-199)

  15. St. Zephyrinus (199-217)

  16. St. Callistus I (217-22)

  17. St. Urban I (222-30)

  18. St. Pontain (230-35)

  19. St. Anterus (235-36)

  20. St. Fabian (236-50)

  21. St. Cornelius (251-53)

  22. St. Lucius I (253-54)

  23. St. Stephen I (254-257)

  24. St. Sixtus II (257-258)

  25. St. Dionysius (260-268)

  26. St. Felix I (269-274)

  27. St. Eutychian (275-283)

  28. St. Caius (283-296) -- also called Gaius

  29. St. Marcellinus (296-304)

  30. St. Marcellus I (308-309)

  31. St. Eusebius (309 or 310)

  32. St. Miltiades (311-14)

  33. St. Sylvester I (314-35)

  34. St. Marcus (336)

  35. St. Julius I (337-52)

  36. Liberius (352-66)

  37. St. Damasus I (366-83)

  38. St. Siricius (384-99)

  39. St. Anastasius I (399-401)

  40. St. Innocent I (401-17)

  41. St. Zosimus (417-18)

  42. St. Boniface I (418-22)

  43. St. Celestine I (422-32)

  44. St. Sixtus III (432-40)

  45. St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)

  46. St. Hilarius (461-68)

  47. St. Simplicius (468-83)

  48. St. Felix III (II) (483-92)

  49. St. Gelasius I (492-96)

  50. Anastasius II (496-98)

  51. St. Symmachus (498-514)

  52. St. Hormisdas (514-23)

  53. St. John I (523-26)

  54. St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)

  55. Boniface II (530-32)

  56. John II (533-35)

  57. St. Agapetus I (535-36) -- also called Agapitus I

  58. St. Silverius (536-37)

  59. Vigilius (537-55)

  60. Pelagius I (556-61)

  61. John III (561-74)

  62. Benedict I (575-79)

  63. Pelagius II (579-90)

  64. St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)

  65. Sabinian (604-606)

  66. Boniface III (607)

  67. St. Boniface IV (608-15)

  68. St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)

  69. Boniface V (619-25)

  70. Honorius I (625-38)

  71. Severinus (640)

  72. John IV (640-42)

  73. Theodore I (642-49)

  74. St. Martin I (649-55)

  75. St. Eugene I (655-57)

  76. St. Vitalian (657-72)

  77. Adeodatus (II) (672-76)

  78. Donus (676-78)

  79. St. Agatho (678-81)

  80. St. Leo II (682-83)

  81. St. Benedict II (684-85)

  82. John V (685-86)

  83. Conon (686-87)

  84. St. Sergius I (687-701)

  85. John VI (701-05)

  86. John VII (705-07)

  87. Sisinnius (708)

  88. Constantine (708-15)

  89. St. Gregory II (715-31)

  90. St. Gregory III (731-41)

  91. St. Zachary (741-52)

  92. Stephen II (752)

  93. Stephen III (752-57)

  94. St. Paul I (757-67)

  95. Stephen IV (767-72)

  96. Adrian I (772-95)

  97. St. Leo III (795-816)

  98. Stephen V (816-17)

  99. St. Paschal I (817-24)

  100. Eugene II (824-27)

  101. Valentine (827)

  102. Gregory IV (827-44)

  103. Sergius II (844-47)

  104. St. Leo IV (847-55)

  105. Benedict III (855-58)

  106. St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)

  107. Adrian II (867-72)

  108. John VIII (872-82)

  109. Marinus I (882-84)

  110. St. Adrian III (884-85)

  111. Stephen VI (885-91)

  112. Formosus (891-96)

  113. Boniface VI (896)

  114. Stephen VII (896-97)

  115. Romanus (897)

  116. Theodore II (897)

  117. John IX (898-900)

  118. Benedict IV (900-03)

  119. Leo V (903)

  120. Sergius III (904-11)

  121. Anastasius III (911-13)

  122. Lando (913-14)

  123. John X (914-28)

  124. Leo VI (928)

  125. Stephen VIII (929-31)

  126. John XI (931-35)

  127. Leo VII (936-39)

  128. Stephen IX (939-42)

  129. Marinus II (942-46)

  130. Agapetus II (946-55)

  131. John XII (955-63)

  132. Leo VIII (963-64)

  133. Benedict V (964)

  134. John XIII (965-72)

  135. Benedict VI (973-74)

  136. Benedict VII (974-83)

  137. John XIV (983-84)

  138. John XV (985-96)

  139. Gregory V (996-99)

  140. Sylvester II (999-1003)

  141. John XVII (1003)

  142. John XVIII (1003-09)

  143. Sergius IV (1009-12)

  144. Benedict VIII (1012-24)

  145. John XIX (1024-32)

  146. Benedict IX (1032-45)

  147. Sylvester III (1045)

  148. Benedict IX (1045)

  149. Gregory VI (1045-46)

  150. Clement II (1046-47)

  151. Benedict IX (1047-48)

  152. Damasus II (1048)

  153. St. Leo IX (1049-54)

  154. Victor II (1055-57)

  155. Stephen X (1057-58)

  156. Nicholas II (1058-61)

  157. Alexander II (1061-73)

  158. St. Gregory VII (1073-85)

  159. Blessed Victor III (1086-87)

  160. Blessed Urban II (1088-99)

  161. Paschal II (1099-1118)

  162. Gelasius II (1118-19)

  163. Callistus II (1119-24)

  164. Honorius II (1124-30)

  165. Innocent II (1130-43)

  166. Celestine II (1143-44)

  167. Lucius II (1144-45)

  168. Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)

  169. Anastasius IV (1153-54)

  170. Adrian IV (1154-59)

  171. Alexander III (1159-81)

  172. Lucius III (1181-85)

  173. Urban III (1185-87)

  174. Gregory VIII (1187)

  175. Clement III (1187-91)

  176. Celestine III (1191-98)

  177. Innocent III (1198-1216)

  178. Honorius III (1216-27)

  179. Gregory IX (1227-41)

  180. Celestine IV (1241)

  181. Innocent IV (1243-54)

  182. Alexander IV (1254-61)

  183. Urban IV (1261-64)

  184. Clement IV (1265-68)

  185. Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)

  186. Blessed Innocent V (1276)

  187. Adrian V (1276)

  188. John XXI (1276-77)

  189. Nicholas III (1277-80)

  190. Martin IV (1281-85)

  191. Honorius IV (1285-87)

  192. Nicholas IV (1288-92)

  193. St. Celestine V (1294)

  194. Boniface VIII (1294-1303)

  195. Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)

  196. Clement V (1305-14)

  197. John XXII (1316-34)

  198. Benedict XII (1334-42)

  199. Clement VI (1342-52)

  200. Innocent VI (1352-62)

  201. Blessed Urban V (1362-70)

  202. Gregory XI (1370-78)

  203. Urban VI (1378-89)

  204. Boniface IX (1389-1404)

  205. Innocent VII (1406-06)

  206. Gregory XII (1406-15)

  207. Martin V (1417-31)

  208. Eugene IV (1431-47)

  209. Nicholas V (1447-55)

  210. Callistus III (1455-58)

  211. Pius II (1458-64)

  212. Paul II (1464-71)

  213. Sixtus IV (1471-84)

  214. Innocent VIII (1484-92)

  215. Alexander VI (1492-1503)

  216. Pius III (1503)

  217. Julius II (1503-13)

  218. Leo X (1513-21)

  219. Adrian VI (1522-23)

  220. Clement VII (1523-34)

  221. Paul III (1534-49)

  222. Julius III (1550-55)

  223. Marcellus II (1555)

  224. Paul IV (1555-59)

  225. Pius IV (1559-65)

  226. St. Pius V (1566-72)

  227. Gregory XIII (1572-85)

  228. Sixtus V (1585-90)

  229. Urban VII (1590)

  230. Gregory XIV (1590-91)

  231. Innocent IX (1591)

  232. Clement VIII (1592-1605)

  233. Leo XI (1605)

  234. Paul V (1605-21)

  235. Gregory XV (1621-23)

  236. Urban VIII (1623-44)

  237. Innocent X (1644-55)

  238. Alexander VII (1655-67)

  239. Clement IX (1667-69)

  240. Clement X (1670-76)

  241. Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)

  242. Alexander VIII (1689-91)

  243. Innocent XII (1691-1700)

  244. Clement XI (1700-21)

  245. Innocent XIII (1721-24)

  246. Benedict XIII (1724-30)

  247. Clement XII (1730-40)

  248. Benedict XIV (1740-58)

  249. Clement XIII (1758-69)

  250. Clement XIV (1769-74)

  251. Pius VI (1775-99)

  252. Pius VII (1800-23)

  253. Leo XII (1823-29)

  254. Pius VIII (1829-30)

  255. Gregory XVI (1831-46)

  256. Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)

  257. Leo XIII (1878-1903)

  258. St. Pius X (1903-14)

  259. Benedict XV (1914-22)

  260. Pius XI (1922-39)

  261. Pius XII (1939-58)

  262. Blessed John XXIII (1958-63)

  263. Paul VI (1963-78)

  264. John Paul I (1978)

  265. John Paul II (1978—2005)

  266. Benedict XVI (2005 -)

 

From 1000 A.D.
Pontificate Name Personal Name
June 1003 to December 1003 Pope John XVII Sicco
25 December 1003 to July 1009 Pope John XVIII Giovanni Fasano
31 July 1009 to 12 May 1012 Pope Sergius IV Pietro Bucca Porci
18 May 1012 to 9 April 1024 Pope Benedict VIII Theophylactus II
April/May 1024 to 6 December 1032 Pope John XIX Romanus
1032 to 1044 Pope Benedict IX Theophylactus III
1045 Pope Sylvester III John, Bishop of Sabina
1045 to 1046 Pope Benedict IX; 2nd Term Theophylactus III
April/May 1045 to 20 December 1046 Pope Gregory VI Johannes Gratianus
24 December 1046 to 9 October 1047 Pope Clement II Suidger
November 1047 to 1048 Pope Benedict IX;
3rd Term		 Theophylactus III
17 July 1048 to 9 August 1048 Pope Damasus II Poppo
December 1049 to 19 April 1054 Pope Leo IX Bruno, Count of Dagsbourg
13 April 1055 to 28 July 1057 Pope Victor II Gebhard, Count of Hirschberg
2 August 1057 to 29 March 1058 Pope Stephen X Frederic de Lorraine
6 December 1058 to 27 July 1061 Pope Nicholas II Gérard de Bourgogne
30 September 1061 to 21 April 1073 Pope Alexander II Anselmo Baggio
22 April 1073 to 29 May 1085 Pope Gregory VII Hildebrand
May 1086 to 16 September 1087 Pope Victor III Desiderius
12 March 1088 to 29 July 1099 Pope Urban II Odo of Chatillon
13 August 1099 to 21 January 1118 Pope Paschal II Raneiro
24 January 1118 to 28 January 1119 Pope Gelasius II Giovanni Coniulo
2 February 1119 to 13 December 1124 Pope Calixtus II Guido, Comte de Bourgogne
15 December 1124 to 13 February 1130 Pope Honorius II Lamberto Scannabecchi
14 February 1130 to 24 September 1143 Pope Innocent II Gregorio Papareschi
26 September 1143 to 8 March 1144 Pope Celestine II Guido di Castello
12 March 1144 to 15 March 1145 Pope Lucius II Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso
15 February 1145 to 8 July 1153 Pope Eugene III Bernardo Paganelli
12 July 1153 to 15 February 1154 Pope Anastasius IV Corrado della Subarra
4 December 1154 to 1 September 1159 Pope Adrian IV;   first English pope Nicholas Breakspear
7 September 1159 to 30 August 1181 Pope Alexander III Orlando Bandinelli
1 September 1181 to 25 September 1185 Pope Lucius III Ubaldo Allucingoli
25 November 1185 to 19 October 1187 Pope Urban III Uberto Crivelli
21 October 1187 to 17 December 1187 Pope Gregory VIII Alberto di Morra
19 December 1187 to 27 March 1191 Pope Clement III Paolo Scolari
30 March 1191 to 8 January 1198 Pope Celestine III Giacinto Boboni Orsini
8 January 1198 to 16 July 1216 Pope Innocent III Lothario dei Conti di Segni
18 July 1216 to 18 March 1227 Pope Honorius III Cencio Savelli
19 March 1227 to 22 August 1241 Pope Gregory IX Ugolino dei Conti di Segni
25 October 1241 to 10 November 1241 Pope Celestine IV Goffredo Castiglione
25 June 1243 to 27 December 1254 Pope Innocent IV Sinibaldo de Fieschi
12 December 1254 to 25 May 1261 Pope Alexander IV Rainaldo dei Conti di Segni
29 August 1261 to 2 October 1264 Pope Urban IV Jacques Pantaléon
5 February 1265 to 29 November 1268 Pope Clement IV Guy le Gros Foulques
29 November 1268 to 1 September 1271

interregnum

  
1 September 1271 to 10 January 1276 Pope Gregory X Theobaldo Visconti
21 January 1276 to 22 June 1276 Pope Innocent V Pierre de Champagni
11 July 1276 to 18 August 1276 Pope Adrian V Ottoboni dei Fieschi
8 September 1276 to 20 May 1277 Pope John XXI,   first Portuguese pope Pietro Rebuli-Giuliani
25 November 1277 to 22 August 1280 Pope Nicholas III Giovanni Gaetano Orsini
22 February 1281 to 28 March 1285 Pope Martin IV Simon de Brie
2 April 1285 to 3 April 1287 Pope Honorius IV Giacomo Savelli
22 February 1288 to 4 April 1292 Pope Nicholas IV Girolamo Masci
4 April 1292 to 5 July 1294   interregnum
5 July 1294 to 13 December 1294 Pope Celestine V Pietro di Morrone
24 December 1294 to 11 October 1303 Pope Boniface VIII Benedetto Gaetani
22 October 1303 to 7 July 1304 Pope Benedict XI Nicholo Boccasini
5 June 1305 to 20 April 1314 Pope Clement V Bertrand de Got
20 April 1314 to 7 August 1316

interregnum

  
7 August 1316 to 4 December 1334 Pope John XXII Jacques Dučse
20 December 1334 to 25 April 1342 Pope Benedict XII Jacques Fournier
7 May 1342 to 6 December 1352 Pope Clement VI Pierre Roger
18 December 1352 to 12 September 1362 Pope Innocent VI Étienne Aubert
28 September 1362 to 19 December 1370 Pope Urban V Guillaume de Grimoard
30 December 1370 to 26 March 1378 Pope Gregory XI Pierre Roger de Beaufort
8 April 1378 to 15 October 1389 Pope Urban VI Bartolomeo Prignano
2 November 1389 to 1 October 1404 Pope Boniface IX Pietro Tomacelli
17 October 1404 to 6 November 1406 Pope Innocent VII Cosimo dei Migliorati
30 November 1406 to 4 July 1415 Pope Gregory XII Angelo Correr
4 July 1415 to 11 November 1417 interregnum  
11 November 1417 to 20 February 1431 Pope Martin V Oddone Colonna
3 March 1431 to 23 February 1447 Pope Eugenius IV Gabriel Condulmer
6 March 1447 to 24 March 1455 Pope Nicholas V Tommaso Parentucelli
8 April 1455 to 6 August 1458 Pope Calixtus III Alphonso de Borgia
19 August 1458 to 15 August 1464 Pope Pius II Enea Silvio de Piccolomini
30 August 1464 to 26 July 1471 Pope Paul II Pietro Barbo
9 August 1471 to 12 August 1484 Pope Sixtus IV;                      Commissioned the Sistine Chapel Francesco della Rovere
29 August 1484 to 25 July 1492 Pope Innocent VIII Giovanni Battista Cibo
11 August 1492 to 18 August 1503 Pope Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
22 September 1503 to 18 October 1503 Pope Pius III Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini
31 October 1503 to 21 February 1513 Pope Julius II Giuliano della Rovere
9 March 1513 to 1 December 1521 Pope Leo X Giovanni de' Medici
9 January 1522 to 14 February 1523 Pope Adrian VI;     first Dutch Pope; last non-Italian Pope until 1978 Adriaan Dedel
26 November 1523 to 25 September 1534 Pope Clement VII Giulio de' Medici
13 October 1534 to 10 November 1549 Pope Paul III Alessandro Farnese
7 February 1550 to 23 March 1555 Pope Julius III Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555 Pope Marcellus II Marcello Cervini
23 May 1555 to 18 August 1559 Pope Paul IV Giovanni Pietro Caraffa
25 December 1559 to 9 December 1565 Pope Pius IV Giovanni Angelo de'Medici
7 January 1566 to 1 May 1572 Pope Pius V Michele Ghislieri
13 May 1572 to 10 April 1585 Pope Gregory XIII Ugo Buoncampagni
24 April 1585 to 27 August 1590 Pope Sixtus V Felice Perretti
15 September 1590 to 27 September 1590 Pope Urban VII Giovanni Battista Castagna
5 December 1590 to 15 /16 October 1591 Pope Gregory XIV Niccolo Sfondrati
29 October 1591 to 30 December 1591 Pope Innocent IX Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti
30 January 1592 to 3 March 1605 Pope Clement VIII Ippolito Aldobrandini
1 April 1605 to 12 April 1605 Pope Leo XI Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici
16 May 1605 to 28 January 1621 Pope Paul V Camillo Borghese
9 February 1621 to 3 July 1623 Pope Gregory XV Alessandro Ludovisi
6 August 1623 to 29 July 1644 Pope Urban VIII Maffeo Barberini
16 September 1644 to 7 January 1655 Pope Innocent X Giovanni Battista Pamphili
7 April 1655 to 22 May 1667 Pope Alexander VII Fabio Chigi
20 June 1667 to 9 December 1669 Pope Clement IX Giulio Rospigliosi
29 April 1670 to 22 July 1676 Pope Clement X Emilio Altieri
21 September 1676 to 11/12 August 1689 Pope Innocent XI Benedetto Odescalchi
6 October 1689 to 1 February 1691 Pope Alexander VIII Pietro Vitto Ottoboni
12 July 1691 to 27 September 1700 Pope Innocent XII Antonio Pignatelli
23 November 1700 to 19 March 1721 Pope Clement XI Giovanni Francesco Albani
8 May 1721 to 7 March 1724 Pope Innocent XIII Michelangelo de ’Conti
27 May 1724 to 21 February 1730 Pope Benedict XIII Vincenzo Marco Orsini
12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740 Pope Clement XII Lorenzo Corsini
17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758 Pope Benedict XIV Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini
6 July 1758 to 2 February 1769 Pope Clement XIII Carlo della Torre Rezzonico
19 May 1769 to 22 September 1774 Pope Clement XIV Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli
15 February 1775 to 29 August 1799 Pope Pius VI Giovanni Angelo Braschi
14 March 1800 to 20 August 1823 Pope Pius VII Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti
28 September 1823 to 10 February 1829 Pope Leo XII Annibale della Genga
31 March 1829 to 1 December 1830 Pope Pius VIII Francesco Saverio Castigliani
2 February 1831 to 1 June 1846 Pope Gregory XVI Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari
16 June 1846 to 7 February 1878 Pope Pius IX;    Opened First Vatican Council Conti Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti
20 February 1878 to 20 July 1903 Pope Leo XIII Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci
4 August 1903 to 20 August 1914 Pope Pius X Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
3 September 1914 to 22 January 1922 Pope Benedict XV Giacomo della Chiesa
6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939 Pope Pius XI  signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, establishing the                         Vatican City as a sovereign state Achille Ratti
2 March 1939 to 9 October 1958 Pope Pius XII Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Eugenio Pacelli
28 October 1958 to 3 June 1963 Pope John XXIII;   Opened Second Vatican Council Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
21 June 1963 to 6 August 1978 Pope Paul VI Giovanni Battista Antonio Maria Montini
26 August 1978 to 28 September 1978 Pope John Paul I Albino Luciani
16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005 Pope John Paul II;  first Polish Pope and first non-Italian pope                               since 1523 Karol Józef Wojtyla
April 2005

 

 Benedict XVI
He is the first German pope since Victor II (1055-1057)		 Carl Ratzinger



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