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