Pope

Ereignisse (18)

• 1274

  5/7 — In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.

• 1294

  12/13 — Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.

• 1412

  1/16 — The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.

• 1464

  8/30 — Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

• 1621

  2/9 — Gregorius XV wird Papst, der letzte Papst, der durch Acclamation gewählt wurde.

• 1925

  12/11 — Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

• 1958

  10/28 — John XXIII is elected Pope.

• 1979

  6/2 — Papst Johannes Paul II beginnt seinen ersten offiziellen Besuch in seiner Heimat Polen und wird der erste Papst, der ein kommunistisches Land besucht.

• 2005

  4/24 — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

• 2013

  3/13 — Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

• 217

  12/20 — Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, although Hippolytus of Rome is soon thereafter elected as a rival pope.

• 230

  7/21 — Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.

• 235

  11/21 — Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.

• 254

  5/12 — Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.

• 523

  8/13 — John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.

• 533

  1/2 — Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.

• 708

  3/25 — Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.

• 904

  1/29 — Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.