List of popes

Table columns:
Pontiff number
Pontificate
Portrait
Name: English · Latin
Personal name
Place of birth
Age at start/ end of papacy
Notes

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cells: 257
4 Aug 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. Combatted Modernism; issued the oath against it. Advocated the Gregorian Chant and reformed the Roman Breviary.
cells: 258
3 Sept 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 Nov 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. Credited for intervening for peace during World War I. Issued the 1917 Code of Canon Law; supported the missionaries in Maximum Illud. Remembered by Benedict XVI as a "prophet of peace".
cells: 259
6 Feb 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. Inaugurated Vatican Radio (1931). Re-founded the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1936). Created the feast of Christ the King. Opposed Communism and Nazism.
cells: 260
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. Eliminated the Italian majority of cardinals. Credited with intervening for peace during World War II; controversial for his reactions to the Holocaust.
cells: 261
28 Oct 1958 – 3 June 1963 (4 years, 218 days) (1679)
St John XXIII Papa IOANNES Vicesimus Tertius
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, O.F.S.
25 Nov 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". Issued the encyclical Pacem in terris (1963) on peace and nuclear disarmament; intervened for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
cells: 262
21 June 1963 – 6 Aug 1978 (15 years, 46 days) (5525)
Bl. Paul VI Papa PAULUS Sextus
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini
26 Sept 1897 Concesio, Brescia, Italy
65 / 80
Motto: Cum Ipso in Monte ("With Him on the mount") Italian. Last pope to be crowned in a coronation with the tiara. First pope to travel to the United States and Australia; first pope since 1809 to travel outside Italy. Closed the Second Vatican Council. Issued the encyclical Humanae vitae (1968) condemning artificial contraception.
cells: 263
26 Aug 1978 – 28 Sept 1978 (33 days) (33)
Ven. John Paul I Papa IOANNES PAULUS Primus
Albino Luciani
17 Oct 1912 Forno di Canale, Belluno, Italy
65 / 65
Motto: Humilitas ("Humility") Italian. Abolished the coronation opting for the Papal Inauguration. First pope to use 'the First' in papal name; first with two names for two immediate predecessors. Last pope to use the Sedia Gestatoria.
cells: 264
16 Oct 1978 – 2 April 2005 (26 years, 168 days) (9665)
St John Paul II (John Paul the Great)[37] Papa IOANNES PAULUS Secundus
Karol Józef Wojtyła
20 May 1920 Wadowice, Poland
58 / 84
Motto: Totus Tuus ("Totally yours") First Polish pope and first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI (1522–1523). Traveled extensively, visiting 129 countries during his pontificate. Second longest reign after Pius IX. Founded World Youth Day (1984) and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (1994). Canonized more saints than all his predecessors. Youngest individual to start his papacy since Pius IX (1846).

Questions about this table:
originalText: pope who was first sovereign of vatican city
answer: answerTexts: Pius XI