How many Popes have there been in the Catholic Church including the oresent one?

-- Kevin Caldwell (caldwellk@brcc.edu), October 31, 2003

Answers

265 Popes. 79 are Saints. 8 are Blessed. 2 are Doctors of the Church.

-- Scott (papasquat10@hotmail.com), October 31, 2003.

Are you including the Popes at Avignon?

-- tedeuscong (tedeuscong@yahoo.com), November 06, 2003.

Why not the popes at Avignon? Seven out of nine of them were really popes. Here's how it went =====>

Boniface VIII 1294-1303 pope at Rome

Clement V 1305-1314 pope at Avignon (begins "Babylonian Captivity")

John XXII 1316-1334 pope at Avignon

Benedict XII 1334-1342 pope at Avignon

Clement VI 1342-1352 pope at Avignon

Innocent VI 1352-1362 pope at Avignon

Urban V 1362-1370 pope at Avignon

Gregory XI 1370-1378 pope at Avignon

Urban VI 1378-1389 pope at Rome (returned to Rome beginning the "Great Schism"

Clement VII 1378-1394 ANTI-POPE at Avignon

Boniface IX 1389-1404 pope at Rome

Benedict XIII 1394-1423 ANTI-POPE #1 at Avignon

Innocent VII 1404-1406 pope at Rome

Gregory XII 1406-1415 pope at Rome (Council of Pisa in 1409 tries to end Great Schism but fails)

Alexander V 1409-1410 ANTI-POPE #2 at Pisa

John XXIII 1410-1415 ANTI-POPE #2 (successor) at Pisa (Note his name.)

>>> Council of Constance (1417) effectively ends Great Schism <<<<<

Martin V 1417-1431 pope at Rome

-- (Why@Not.com), November 06, 2003.