There have been a total of 265 popes including Peter.
Including Peter and the current pope, Francis, there have been 266 popes.
Popes have been around since the days of Saint Peter. They did not use the title of pope until many years later, however, but there has always been a man in the position as leader of Christianity.
Most, but not all, popes elected since 1378 have been Italian.
As of 2014 there have been 3 popes - Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis..
No pope has been a king. However, since the Vatican became an independent country in 1929 he is considered as the monarch, or sole ruler, of the city/state.
As of the 7th of December 2014, there have been 1040 Sundays since 1994.
There have been 12 popes who have taken Pius as their name.
Answer 1In the Roman Catholic Church - None. There has never been a Pope from outside of Europe and the Spanish Popes were from non-Arab nobility of Northern Spanish stock. While there may have been Popes in the pre-Islamic Period that came from North African, Levantine and Mesopotamian regions, these individuals would not have been Arabs since prior to the Rise of Islam, these areas did not "Arabize". Since the 600s C.E., no Pope has come from the Arab World.In the Coptic Church - All (since the Arab arrival in Egypt in the mid 600s CE). All Coptic Popes have been Egyptian and thus consider themselves Arabs.
Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th pope.
There have been 217 Italian popes and only 49 non-Italian popes.
There have only been two popes since 1981 - Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI.