17
Question...So If Pope Francis Retires, And The Conclave Shows White Smoke, Will The Catholic Church Have 3 Living Popes?
posted ago by lovecymru ago by lovecymru +17 / -0

Which one would be infallible? The one sitting ex-cathedra from his throne?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10941765/Frail-Pope-helped-feet-weekly-audience-days-speculation-plans-resign.html

13 x Catholic Church had 3 popes simultaneously

827: Eugene II[3] — Valentine[4] — Gregory IV[5] 896: Formosus[6] — Boniface VI[7] — Stephen VI[8] 897: Stephen VI[8] — Romanus[9] — Theodore II[10] 928: John X[11] — Leo VI[12] — Stephen VII[13] 964: Leo VIII[14] — Benedict V[15] — John XIII[16] 1003: Sylvester II[17] — John XVII[18] — John XVIII[19] 1045: Sylvester III[20][a] — Benedict IX (second reign)[21] — Gregory VI[22][a] 1187: Urban III[23] — Gregory VIII[24] — Clement III[25] 1503: Alexander VI[26] — Pius III[27] — Julius II[28] 1555: Julius III[29] — Marcellus II[30] — Paul IV[31] 1590: Sixtus V[32] — Urban VII[33] — Gregory XIV[34] 1605: Clement VIII[35] — Leo XI[36] — Paul V[37] 1978: Paul VI — John Paul I — John Paul II

There was also a year in which the Roman Catholic Church was led by four popes, called the Year of Four Popes:

1276: Gregory X[38] — Innocent V[39] — Adrian V[40] — John XXI[41] See alsoN

6 comments
6 comments share save hide report block hide replies