there is only one pope at a time, he) will serve until his death.
Roman Catholic Popes are descended from Peter, how can they be false? Please be more clear in your question and what you are referring to.
There are many religions in Portugal but the most dominate one is Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic AnswerAs of Benedict XVI, there are been 266 Pontiffs of the Catholic Church. A complete list of them is at the link below. You may click on each name for a history of each, although, except for the Avignon Popes, nearly all of them have lived or died in Rome.
As of 2014 there have been 3 popes - Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis..
The majority of Spain has been Roman Catholic since the Roman era.
Roman Catholic priests today take a vow of celibacy, but many early popes were married men.
There are many religions in Austria, although Roman Catholic is its most common religion. Hope that helped :) A W.
As of April 2013 there have been 266 popes.
At last estimate, 1.2 billion Catholics in the world.
Probably Roman Catholic because of the many Irish immigrants.
It's just the Catholic Church, not the Roman Catholic Church. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is rarely used by the Catholic Church. There has been an unbroken line of 266 popes from St. Peter (first Pope appointed by Our Blessed Lord in Matthew 16: 17-19) to the current Francis (as of 2013), and 39 anti-popes (Men who claimed to be pope but were not validly elected). For the complete list, see the link below.
Including Pope Benedict XVI there have been 265 popes.