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Are there 299 popes

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

No. Although there is no official list of popes. The Annuario Pontificio, published annually by the Vatican, lists Benedict XVI as the 265th Pope. There have also been numerous other individuals who have been falsely proclaimed pope. These people are known as anti-popes. There have been numerous anti-popes dating from the second century. There is also a strange case involving Stephen, a lay man elected in 752 to the papacy who died before being ordained a priest and thus never officially served as pope. He was labeled simply as Pope-elect Stephen in 1961.

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16y ago

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