Famous Popes

• Bergoglio, Jorge Mario

  The Argentinian cardinal who became Pope Francis I

• Pope Benedict XVI

  The supreme leader of the Catholic Church, 2005-2013

• Pope Gregory XIII

  The pope who changed the calendar in 1582

• Pope Joan

  Female pope who may or may not have existed

• Pope John Paul II

  History's first Polish pope

• Pope Julius II

  The pope who hired Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel

• Pope Leo X

  The Medici pope when the Reformation started

• Pope Pius IX

  The longest reigning pope ever

• Pope Urban VIII

  The pope who named Galileo a heretic

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