How Many Popes Have There Been?

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The first pope of the Catholic Church was St. Peter, the apostle.

Since then, there have been a total of 266 popes in a continuous line of apostolic succession spanning almost 2000 years. The current pope (#266) is Benedict XVI.

An entire list of the popes can be found here.

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Michael February 4, 2009 at 4:01 pm

I was able to convert a protestant to the Catholic Church just by showing them a timeline similar to this one.

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maritza January 24, 2012 at 5:46 pm

good thing god created the internet cause if he didn’t i would have to be researching on books and books are really boring

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