List of Popes

This list is only of "official" Popes, it does not include antipopes.
Family names, when known, are given in parans.
If a Pope could be known by another name, that name is given also (after the word "or").

1. St. Peter (Simon bar-Jona) (32 - 64 or 67)
2. St. Linus (67 - 76)
3. St. Cletus (or Anacletus) (76 - 88)
4. St. Clement I (88 - 97)
5. St. Evaristus (97 - 105)
6. St. Alexander I (105 - 115)
7. St. Sixtus I (or Xystus I) (115 - 125)
8. St. Telesphorus (125 - 136)
9. St. Hyginus (136 - 140)
10. St. Pius I (140 - 155)
11. St. Anicetus (155 - 166)
12. St. Soter (166 - 175)
13. St. Eleutherius (175 - 189)
14. St. Victor I (189 - 199)
15. St. Zephyrinus (199 - 217)
16. St. Callistus I (or Calixtus I) (217 - 222)
17. St. Urban I (222 - 230)
18. St. Pontain (July 12, 230 - September 28, 235)
19. St. Antherus (November 21, 235 - January 3, 236)
20. St. Favian (January 10, 236 - January 20, 250)
21. St. Cornelius (March, 251 - June, 253)
22. St. Lucius I (June 25, 253 - March 5, 254)
23. St. Stephen I (May 12, 254 - August 2, 257)
24. St. Sixtus II (August 30, 257 - August 6, 258)
25. St. Dionysius (July 22, 259 - December 26, 268)
26. St. Felix I (January 5, 269 - December 30, 274)
27. St. Eutychian (January 4, 275 - December 7, 283)
28. St. Caius (or Gaius) (December 17, 283 - April 22, 296)
29. St. Marcellinus (June 30, 296 - October 25, 304)
30. St. Marcellus I (May 27, 308 - January 16, 309)
31. St. Eusebius (April 18, 309 - August 17, 309)
32. St. Miltiades (or Melchiades) (July 2, 311 - January 11, 314)
33. St. Sylvester I (January 31, 314 - December 31, 335)
34. St. Mark (or Marcus) (January 18, 336 - October 7, 336)
35. St. Julius I (February 6, 337 - April 12, 352)
36. Liberius (May 17, 352 - September 24, 366)
37. St. Damasus I (October 1, 366 - December 11, 384)
38. St. Siricius (December 15, 22, or 29, 384 - November 26, 399)
39. St. Anastasius I (November 27, 399 - December 19, 401)
40. St. Innocent I (December 22, 401 - March 12, 417)
41. St. Zosimus (March 18, 417 - December 26, 418)
42. St. Boniface I (December 28 or 29, 418 - September 4, 422)
43. St. Celestine I (September 10, 422 - July 27, 432)
44. St. Sixtus III (July 31, 432 - August 19, 440)
45. St. Leo I (the Great) (September 29, 440 - November 10, 461)
46. St. Hilarius (November 19, 461 - February 29, 468)
47. St. Simplicius (March 3, 468 - March 10, 483)
48. St. Felix II (III) (March 13, 483 - March 1, 492) (see note 1)
49. St. Gelasius I (March 1, 492 - November 21, 496)
50. Anastasius II (November 24, 496 - November 19, 498)
51. St. Symmachus (November 22, 498 - July 19, 514)
52. St. Hormisdas (July 20, 514 - August 6, 523)
53. St. John I (August 13, 523 - May 18, 526)
54. St. Felix III (IV) (July 12, 526 - September 22, 530) (see note 1)
55. Boniface II (September 22, 530 - October 17, 532)
56. John II (January 2, 533 - May 8, 535) (see note 2)
57. St. Agapitus I (or Agapetus I) (May 13, 535 - April 22, 536)
58. St. Silverius (June 1, 536 - November 11, 537)
59. Vigilius (March 29, 537 - June 7, 555)
60. Pelagius I (April 16, 556 - March 4, 561)
61. John III (July 17, 561 - July 13, 574)
62. Benedict I (June 2, 575 - July 3, 579)
63. Pelagius II (November 26, 579 - February 7, 590)
64. St. Gregory I (the Great) (September 3, 590 - March 12, 604)
65. Sabinian (September 13, 604 - February 22, 606)
66. Boniface III (February 19, 607 - November 12, 607)
67. St. Boniface IV (August 25, 608 - May 8, 615)
68. St. Deusdedit (or Adeodatus I) (October 19, 615 - November 8, 618)
69. Boniface V (December 23, 619 - October 25, 625)
70. Honorius I (October 27, 625 - October 12, 638)
71. Severinus (May 28, 640 - August 2, 640)
72. John IV (December 24, 640 - October 12, 642)
73. Theodore I (November 24, 642 - May 14, 649)
74. St. Martin I (July, 649 - September 16, 655)
75. St. Eugenius I (August 10, 656 - June 2, 657)
76. St. Vitalian (July 30, 657 - January 27, 672)
77. Adeodatus (II) (April 11, 672 - June 17, 676)
78. Donus (or Domnus) (November 2, 676 - April 11, 678)
79. St. Agatho (June 27, 678 - Jan 10, 681)
80. St. Leo II (August 17, 682 - July 3, 683)
81. St. Benedict II (June 26, 684 - May, 685)
82. John V (July 23, 685 - August 2, 686)
83. Conon (October 21, 686 - September 21, 687)
84. St. Sergius I (December 15, 687 - September 8, 701)
85. John VI (October 30, 701 - January 11, 705)
86. John VII (March 1, 705 - October 18, 707)
87. Sisinnius (January 15, 708 - February 4, 708)
88. Constantine (March 25, 708 - April 9, 715)
89. St. Gregory II (May 19, 715 - February 11, 731)
90. St. Gregory III (March 18, 731 - November, 741)
91. St. Zachary (December 10, 741 - March 22, 752)

    Stephen II (752) (see note 3)

92. Stephen III (II) (March 26, 752 - April 26, 757)
93. St. Paul I (April, 757 - June 28, 767)
94. Stephen IV (III) (August 1, 767 - January 24, 772)
95. Adrian I (or Hadrian) (February 1, 772 - December 25, 795)
96. St. Leo III (December 26, 795 - June 12, 816)
97. Stephen V (IV) (June 22, 816 - January 24, 817)
98. St. Paschal I (January 25, 817 - February 11, 824)
99. Eugenius II (February, 824 - August, 827)
100. Valentine (August, 827 -  September 827)
101. Gregory IV (827 - January, 844)
102. Sergius II (January, 844 - January 27, 847)
103. St. Leo IV (January, 847 - July 17, 855)
104. Benedict III (July, 855 - April 17, 858)
105. St. Nicholas I (the Great) (April 24, 858 - November 13, 867)
106. Adrian II (December 14, 867 - December 14, 872)
107. John VIII (December 14, 872 - December 16, 882)
108. Marinus I (sometimes erroniously called Martinus II) (December 16, 882 - May 15, 884)
109. St. Adrian III (May 17, 884 - September, 885)
110. Stephen VI (V) (September, 885 - September 14, 891)
111. Formosus (October 6, 891 - April 4, 896)
112. Boniface VI (April, 896)
113. Stephen VII (VI) (May, 896 - August, 897)
114. Romanus (August, 897 - November, 897)
115. Theodore II (December, 897)
116. John IX (January, 898 - January, 900)
117. Benedict IV (January, 900 - July, 903)
118. Leo V (July, 903 - September, 903)
119. Sergius III (January 29, 904 - April 14, 911)
120. Anastasius III (April, 911 - June, 913)
121. Lando (July, 913 - February, 914)
122. John X (March, 914 - May, 928)
123. Leo VI (May, 928 - December, 928)
124. Stephen VIII (VII) (December, 928 - February, 931)
125. John XI (February, 931 - December, 935)
126. Leo VII (January 3, 936 - July 13, 939)
127. Stephen IX (VIII) (July 14, 939 - October, 942)
128. Marinus II (sometimes erroniously called Martinus III) (October 30, 942 - May, 946)
129. Agapitus II (May 10, 946 - December, 955)
130. John XII (December 16, 955 - May 14, 963)
131. Leo VIII (December 4, 963 - March 1, 964) 
132. Benedict V (May 22, 964 - July 4, 965)
133. John XIII (October 1, 965 - September 6, 972)
134. Benedict VI (January 19, 973 - June, 974)
135. Benedict VII (October, 974 - July 10, 983)
136. John XIV (Peter Canepanova) (December, 983 - August 20, 984) (see note 2)
137. John XV (August, 985 - March, 996) (see note 4)
138. Gregory V (May 3, 996 - February 18, 999)
139. Sylvester II (April 2, 999 - May 12, 1003)
140. John XVII (June, 1003 -  December, 1003)
141. John XVIII (January, 1004 - July, 1009)
142. Sergius IV (July 31, 1009 - May 12, 1012)
143. Benedict VIII (Theophylact of Tusculum) (May 18, 1012 - April 9, 1024)
144. John XIX (Romanus of Tusculum) (April, 1024 - 1032)
145. Benedict IX (Theophylact of Tusculum, junior) (1032 - 1044)
146. Sylvester III (January 20, 1045 - February 10, 1045)
147. Gregory VI (John Gratian) (May 5, 1045 - February, 1046)
148. Clement II (Suidger of Mayendorf) (December 24, 1046 - October 9, 1047)
149. Damasus II (July 17, 1048 - August 9, 1048)
150. St. Leo IX (Bruno of Egesheim) (February 12, 1049 - April 19, 1054)
151. Victor II (Gebhard of Calw) (April 16, 1055 - July 28, 1057)
152. Stephen X (IX) (Frederick Gozelon) (August 3, 1057 - March 29, 1058)
153. Nicholas II (January 24, 1059 - July 27, 1061)
154. Alexander II (Anselm of Baggio) (October 1, 1061 - April 21, 1073)
155. St. Gregory VII (Hildebrand) (April 22, 1073 - May 25, 1085)
156. Blessed Victor III (May 24, 1086 - September 16, 1087)
157. Blessed Urban II (Odo of Chatillon) (March 12, 1088 - July 29, 1099)
158. Paschal II (August 13, 1099 - January 21, 1118)
159. Gelasius II (John Coniulo) (January 24, 1118 - January 28, 1119)
160. Callistus II (Guy of Burgundy) (February 2, 1119 - December 13, 1124)
161. Honorius II (Lambert Scannabecchi) (December 21, 1124 - February 13, 1130)
162. Innocent II (Gregory Papareschi) (February, 1130 - September 24, 1143)
163. Celestine II (Guy del Castello) (September 26, 1143 - March 8, 1144)
164. Lucius II (Gerard Caccianemici) (March 12, 1144 - February 15, 1145)
165. Blessed Eugenius III (Bernard Paganelli) (February 15, 1145 - July 8, 1153)
166. Anastasius IV (Conrad di Suburra) (July 12, 1153 - December 3, 1154)
167. Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear) (December 4, 1154 - September 1, 1159)
168. Alexander III (Orlando Bandinelli) (September 7, 1159 - August 30, 1181)
169. Lucius III (Ubald Allucingoli) (September 1, 1181 - September 25, 1185)
170. Urban III (Humbert Crivelli) (November 25, 1185 - October 20, 1187)
171. Gregory VIII (Albert Sartori di Morra) (October 21, 1187 -  December 17, 1187)
172. Clement III (Paul Scolari) (December 19, 1187 - March, 1191)
173. Celestine III (Hyacinth Bobone Orsini) (March 30, 1191 - January 8, 1198)
174. Innocent III (Lothair Conti) (January 8, 1198 - July 16, 1216)
175. Honorius III (Cencio Savelli) (July 18, 1216 - March 18, 1227)
176. Gregory IX (Ugolino Conti) (March 19, 1227 - August 22, 1241)
177. Celestine IV (Godfrey Castiglioni) (October 25, 1241 - November 10, 1241)
178. Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi) (June 25, 1243 - December 7, 1254)
179. Alexander IV (Reginald Conti) (December 12, 1254 - May 25, 1261)
180. Urban IV (James Pantaleon) (August 29, 1261 - October 2, 1264)
181. Clement IV (Guy le Gros) (February 5, 1265 - November 29, 1268)
182. Blessed Gregory X (Theobald Visconti) (September 1, 1271 - January 10, 1276)
183. Blessed Innocent V (Peter of Tarentaise) (January 21, 1276 - June 22, 1276)
184. Adrian V (Ottobuono Fieschi) (July 11, 1276 - August 18, 1276)
185. John XXI (XX) (Peter Julian) (September 8, 1276 - May 20, 1277) (see note 5)
186. Nicholas III (John Gaetani Orsini) (November 25, 1277 - August 22, 1280)
187. Martin IV (Simon de Brion) (February 2, 1281 - March 28, 1285) (see note 6)
188. Honorius IV (James Savelli) (April 2, 1285 - April 3, 1287)
189. Nicholas IV (Jerome Masci) (February 22, 1288 - April 4, 1292)
190. St. Celestine V (Peter of Morone) (July 5, 1294 - December 13, 1294) (resigned)
191. Boniface VIII (Benedict Gaetani) (December 24, 1294 - October 11, 1303)
192. Blessed Benedict XI (Nicholas Boccasini) (October 22, 1303 - July 7, 1304)
193. Clement V (Bertrand de Got) (June 5, 1305 - April 20, 1314)
194. John XXII (XXI) (James d'Euse) (August 7, 1316 - December 4, 1334)
195. Benedict XII (James Fournier) (December 20, 1334 - April 25, 1342)
196. Clement VI (Peter Roger) (May 7, 1342 - December 6, 1352)
197. Innocent VI (Stephen Aubert) (December 81, 1352 - September 12, 1362)
198. Blessed Urban V (William de Grimoard) (September 28, 1362 - December 19, 1370)
199. Gregory XI (Peter Roger de Beaufort) (December 30, 1370 - March 26, 1378)
200. Urban VI (Bartholomew Prignano) (April 8, 1378 - October 15, 1389) (see note 7)
201. Boniface IX (Peter Tomacelli) (November 2, 1389 - October 1, 1404)
202. Innocent VII (Cosimo di'Migliorati) (October 17, 1404 - November 6, 1406)
203. Gregory XII (Angelo Corrario) (November 30, 1406 - July 4, 1415)
204. Martin V (Odo Colonna) (November 11, 1417 - February 20, 1431)
205. Eugenius IV (Gabriel Condolmieri) (March 3, 1431 - February 23, 1447)
206. Nicholas V (Thomas Parentucelli) (March 6, 1447 - March 24, 1455)
207. Callistus III (Alfonso de Borja) (April 8, 1455 - August 6, 1458)
208. Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini) (August 19, 1458 - August 15, 1464)
209. Paul II (Peter Barbo) (August 30, 1464 - July 26, 1471)
210. Sixtus IV (Francis della Rovere) (August 9, 1471 - August 12, 1484)
211. Innocent VIII (John-Baptist Cibo) (August 29, 1484 - July 25, 1492)
212. Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) (August 11, 1492 - August 18, 1503)
213. Pius III (Francis Todeschini-Piccolomini) (September 22, 1503 - October 18, 1503)
214. Julius II (Julian della Rovere) (October 31, 1503 - February 21, 1513)
215. Leo X (John de'Medici) (March 9, 1513 - December 1, 1521)
216. Adrian VI (Adrian Dedel) (January 9, 1522 - September 14, 1523)
217. Clement VII (Julius de'Medici) (November 19, 1523 - September 25, 1534)
218. Paul III (Alexander Farnese) (October 1, 1534 - November 10, 1549)
219. Julius III (John Ciocchi del Monte) (February 7, 1550 - March 23, 1555)
220. Marcellus II (Marcello Cervini) (April 9, 1555 - May 1, 1555)
221. Paul IV (John Peter Caraffa) (May 23, 1555 - August 18, 1559)
222. Pius IV (John Angelo Medici) (December 25, 1559 - December 9, 1565)
223. St. Pius V (Michael Ghislieri) (Jauary 7, 1566 - May 1, 1572)
224. Gregory XIII (Hugh Buoncompagni) (May 13, 1572 - April 10, 1585)
225. Sixtus V (Felix Peretti) (April 24, 1585 - August 27, 1590)
226. Urban VII (John-Baptist Castagna) (September 15, 1590 - October 16, 1590)
227. Gregory XIV (Nicholas Sfondrati) (December 5, 1590 - October 16, 1591)
228. Innocent IX (John Facchinetti) (October 29, 1591 - December 30, 1591)
229. Clement VIII (Hippolytus Aldobrandini) (January 30, 1592 - March 3, 1605)
230. Leo XI (Alexander de'Medici) (April 1, 1605 - April 27, 1605)
231. Paul V (Camillo Borghese) (May 16, 1605 - January 28, 1621)
232. Gregory XV (Alexander Ludovisi) (February 9, 1621 - July 8, 1623)
233. Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) (August 6, 1623 - July 29, 1644)
234. Innocent X (John-Baptist Pamfili) (September 15, 1644 - January 7, 1655)
235. Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi) (April 7, 1655 - May 22, 1667)
236. Clement IX (Julius Rospigliosi) (June 20, 1667 - December 9, 1669)
237. Clement X (Emilio Altieri) (April 29, 1670 - July 22, 1676)
238. Blessed Innocent XI (Benedict Odescalchi) (September 21, 1676 - August 12, 1689)
239. Alexander VIII (Peter Ottoboni) (October 6, 1689 - February 1, 1691)
240. Innocent XII (Antony Pignatelli) (July 12, 1691 - September 27, 1700)
241. Clement XI (John Francis Albani) (November 23, 1700 - March 19, 1721)
242. Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti) (May 8, 1721 - March 7, 1724)
243. Benedict XIII (Peter Francis Orsini) (May 29, 1724 - February 21, 1730)
244. Clement XII (Laurence Corsini) (July 12, 1730 - February 6, 1740)
245 .Benedict XIV (Prosper Lambertini) (August 17, 1740 - May 8, 1758)
246. Clement XIII (Charles della Torre Rezzonico) (July 6, 1758 - February 2, 1769)
247. Clement XIV (John Laurence Ganganelli) (May 19, 1769 - September 22, 1774)
248. Pius VI (John Angelo Braschi) (February 15, 1775 - August 29, 1799)
249. Pius VII (Gregory Chiaramonti) (March 14, 1800 - August 2, 1823)
250. Leo XII (Hannibal della Genga) (September 28, 1823 - February 10, 1829)
251. Pius VIII (Francis-Xavier Castiglione) (March 31, 1829 - November 30, 1830)
252. Gregory XVI (Maurus Bartholomew Cappellari) (February 2, 1831 - June 1, 1846) (see note 8)
253. Blessed Pius IX (John Mastai-Ferretti) (June 16, 1846 - February 7, 1878)
254. Leo XIII (Joachim Pecci) (February 20, 1878 - July 20, 1903)
255. St. Pius X (Joseph Sarto) (August 4, 1903 - August 20, 1914)
256. Benedict XV (James della Chiesa) (September 3, 1914 - January 22, 1922)
257. Pius XI (Achilles Ratti) (February 6, 1922 - February 10, 1939)
258. Pius XII (Eugene Pacelli) (March 2, 1939 - October 9, 1958)
259. Blessed John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) (October 28, 1958 - June 3, 1963)
260. Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) (June 21, 1963 - August 6, 1978) (see note 9)
261. John Paul I (Albino Luciani) (August 26, 1978 -  September 28, 1978)
262. John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) (October 16, 1978 - April 2, 2005)
263. Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) (April 19, 2005 - present)

NOTES:
1. These two popes are often numbered III and IV respectively, because of the intrusion into ancient lists under Liberius (number 36) of a Felix II, who was certainly an antipope.

2. Pope John II is the first pope of whom it is recorded that he took a new name upon election to the papacy. The second recorded pope to do this was John XIV (number 136) who did so out of respect to the memory of St. Peter. With few exceptions the practice of popes changing their names has been the norm since the year 1009.

3. This pope died on the third day after his election, before being consecrated bishop, and his name is therefore often omitted from some lists. It is included here to account for the alternative numeration of subsequent Stephens.

4. Lists differ in the numeration of Johns from this point because John XVI (997-998) was an antipope.

5. This Pope was really only the 20th (XX), but somewhere among his predecessors an error of enumeration had been made.

6. Really the second (see Marinus I (number 109) and II (number 129)).

7.The last pope up to the present who was a bishop but not a cardinal at the time of his election.

8. The last pope up to the present who was not already a bishop at the time of his election.

9. Pope Paul VI was the first pope to ride in an airplane.

What is an antipope?

An antipope is a false claimant to the Hole See, the last of which was Felix V, who died in 1449. From the third through the fifteenth centuries thirty-seven antipopes sought to seize the power of the papacy from the canonically elected pope. Usually these men were supported by one or more of three groups: 1 - fractional or dissident groups of the faithful and clergy; 2 - political, schismatic, or heretical groups; 3 - the ruling barons or kings who demanded the right of investiture. The fact that the Church survived the disruptions and strife caused by the anitpopes is evidence of her divine institution and mission.

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