Has anyone heard that the last Pope will name himself Peter ll?

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Out of respect for the Apostle Peter, thought by Catholics to have been the first pope, no pope has ever adopted the name Peter II. It is considered unlikely that any future pope would ever choose the name Peter.

The Prophecy of the Popes, a series of cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Roman Catholic popes, does mention a last pope, "Peter the Roman". The alleged prophecies were first published by Benedictine monk Fra Arnold de Wyon in 1595. He attributed the prophecies to Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century Irish Archbishop of Armagh. Given the very accurate description of popes up to 1590 and lack of accuracy after that year, historians generally conclude that the alleged prophecies were written shortly before they were published and have no prophetic value.