List of popes
20th century

List of popes

Section Title: 20th century
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Pontiff number	Pontificate	Portrait	Name: English · Latin	Personal name	Place of birth	Age at start/ end of papacy	Notes

-	4 August 1903 – 20 Aug 1914 (11 years, 16 days) (4034)	-	St Pius X Papa PIUS Decimus	Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, O.F.S.	2 June 1835 Riese, Treviso, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia	68 / 79	Motto: Instaurare Omnia in Christo ("Restore all things in Christ") Italian. Encouraged and expanded reception of the Eucharist.

-	3 September 1914 – 22 Jan 1922 (7 years, 141 days) (2698)	-	Benedict XV Papa BENEDICTUS Quintus Decimus	Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista Della Chiesa, O.F.S.	21 November 1854 Pegli, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia	59 / 67	Motto: In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum. ("In thee, o Lord, have I trusted: let me not be confounded for evermore.") Italian.

-	6 February 1922 – 10 Feb 1939 (17 years, 4 days) (6213)	-	Pius XI Papa PIUS Undecimus	Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, O.F.S.	31 May 1857 Desio, Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia	64 / 81	Motto: Pax Christi in Regno Christi ("The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ") Italian. Signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy (1929) establishing Vatican City as a sovereign state.

-	2 March 1939 – 9 Oct 1958 (19 years, 221 days) (7161)	-	Ven. Pius XII Papa PIUS Duodecimus	Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, O.F.S.	2 March 1876 Rome, Italy	63 / 82	Motto: Opus Justitiae Pax ("The work of justice [shall be] peace") Italian. Invoked papal infallibility in the encyclical Munificentissimus Deus; defined the dogma of the Assumption.

-	28 October 1958 – 3 June 1963 (4 years, 218 days) (1679)	-	St John XXIII Papa IOANNES Vicesimus Tertius	Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, O.F.S.	25 November 1881 Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy	76 / 81	Motto: Obedientia et Pax ("Obedience and peace") Italian. Opened the Second Vatican Council; called "Good Pope John".

-	21 June 1963 – 6 Aug 1978 (15 years, 46 days) (5525)	-	St Paul VI Papa PAULUS Sextus	Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini	26 September 1897 Concesio, Brescia, Italy	65 / 80	Motto: Cum Ipso in Monte ("With Him on the mount") Italian. Last pope to be crowned.

-	26 August 1978 – 28 Sep 1978 (33 days) (33)	-	Ven. John Paul I Papa IOANNES PAULUS Primus	Albino Luciani	17 October 1912 Forno di Canale, Belluno, Italy	65 / 65	Motto: Humilitas ("Humility") Italian. Abolished the coronation opting for the Papal Inauguration.

-	16 October 1978 – 2 April 2005 (26 years, 168 days) (9665)	-	St John Paul II (John Paul the Great) Papa IOANNES PAULUS Secundus	Karol Józef Wojtyła	20 May 1920 Wadowice, Poland	58 / 84	Motto: Totus Tuus ("Totally yours") Polish. First non-Italian pope since Adrian VI (1522–1523).

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Wojtyła was the pope.

final_sentence: Wojtyła was the pope.