Abrahamic / Middle Eastern Christianity Popes of the Catholic Church The Papacy Through History Share Flipboard Email Print Christianity Catholicism Beliefs and Teachings Prayers Tips Worship Saints Holy Days and Holidays Christianity Origins The Bible The New Testament The Old Testament Practical Tools for Christians Christian Life For Teens Christian Prayers Weddings Inspirational Bible Devotions Denominations of Christianity Christian Holidays Christian Entertainment Key Terms in Christianity Latter Day Saints View More By ThoughtCo Updated on July 03, 2019 With the election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio as Pope Francis in 2013, there have been 266 popes in the history of the Catholic Church. The pope is the spiritual leader of Catholicism and the visible head of the Catholic Church. He is the successor to Saint Peter, the first among the apostles and the first pope of Rome. Taken together, the following articles provide a comprehensive list of all the popes of the Catholic Church, divided up by historical era, as well as the years that they reigned. Biographies of the popes will be linked off of each article; check back often to see which biographies have been added. Popes of the Age of Persecution First Century 1. St. Peter (32-67)2. St. Linus (67-76)3. St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)4. St. Clement I (88-97)5. St. Evaristus (97-105) Second Century 6. St. Alexander I (105-115)7. St. Sixtus I (115-125)8. St. Telesphorus (125-136)9. St. Hyginus (136-140)10. St. Pius I (140-155)11. St. Anicetus (155-166)12. St. Soter (166-175)13. St. Eleutherius (175-189)14. St. Victor I (189-199)15. St. Zephyrinus (199-217) Third Century 16. St. Callistus I (217-22)17. St. Urban I (222-30)18. St. Pontain (230-35)19. St. Anterus (235-36)20. St. Fabian (236-50)21. St. Cornelius (251-53)22. St. Lucius I (253-54)23. St. Stephen I (254-257)24. St. Sixtus II (257-258)25. St. Dionysius (260-268)26. St. Felix I (269-274)27. St. Eutychian (275-283)28. St. Caius (283-296)29. St. Marcellinus (296-304) Fourth Century 30. St. Marcellus I (308-309)31. St. Eusebius (309 or 310)32. St. Miltiades (311-14) Popes of the Age of Empire Fourth Century 33. St. Sylvester I (314-35)34. St. Marcus (336)35. St. Julius I (337-52)36. Liberius (352-66)37. St. Damasus I (366-83)38. St. Siricius (384-99)39. St. Anastasius I (399-401) Fifth Century 40. St. Innocent I (401-17)41. St. Zosimus (417-18)42. St. Boniface I (418-22)43. St. Celestine I (422-32)44. St. Sixtus III (432-40)45. St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)46. St. Hilarius (461-68)47. St. Simplicius (468-83)48. St. Felix III (II) (483-92)49. St. Gelasius I (492-96)50. Anastasius II (496-98)51. St. Symmachus (498-514) Sixth Century 52. St. Hormisdas (514-23)53. St. John I (523-26)54. St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)55. Boniface II (530-32)56. John II (533-35)57. St. Agapetus I (535-36)58. St. Silverius (536-37)59. Vigilius (537-55)60. Pelagius I (556-61)61. John III (561-74)62. Benedict I (575-79)63. Pelagius II (579-90) Popes of the Early Middle Ages Sixth Century 64. St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604) Seventh Century 65. Sabinian (604-606)66. Boniface III (607)67. St. Boniface IV (608-15)68. St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)69. Boniface V (619-25)70. Honorius I (625-38)71. Severinus (640)72. John IV (640-42)73. Theodore I (642-49)74. St. Martin I (649-55)75. St. Eugene I (655-57)76. St. Vitalian (657-72)77. Adeodatus (II) (672-76)78. Donus (676-78)79. St. Agatho (678-81)80. St. Leo II (682-83)81. St. Benedict II (684-85)82. John V (685-86)83. Conon (686-87)84. St. Sergius I (687-701) Eighth Century 85. John VI (701-05)86. John VII (705-07)87. Sisinnius (708)88. Constantine (708-15)89. St. Gregory II (715-31)90. St. Gregory III (731-41)91. St. Zachary (741-52) Stephen II (752)—Stephen II was elected but died before he was consecrated pope, so he is not found on the Vatican's official list or included in the count. 92. Stephen III (752-57)93. St. Paul I (757-67)94. Stephen IV (767-72)95. Adrian I (772-95)96. St. Leo III (795-816) Ninth Century 97. Stephen V (816-17)98. St. Paschal I (817-24)99. Eugene II (824-27)100. Valentine (827)101. Gregory IV (827-44)102. Sergius II (844-47)103. St. Leo IV (847-55)104. Benedict III (855-58)105. St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)106. Adrian II (867-72)107. John VIII (872-82)108. Marinus I (882-84)109. St. Adrian III (884-85)110. Stephen VI (885-91)111. Formosus (891-96)112. Boniface VI (896)113. Stephen VII (896-97)114. Romanus (897)115. Theodore II (897)116. John IX (898-900) Tenth Century 117. Benedict IV (900-03)118. Leo V (903)119. Sergius III (904-11)120. Anastasius III (911-13)121. Lando (913-14)122. John X (914-28)123. Leo VI (928)124. Stephen VIII (929-31)125. John XI (931-35)126. Leo VII (936-39)127. Stephen IX (939-42)128. Marinus II (942-46)129. Agapetus II (946-55)130. John XII (955-63)131. Leo VIII (963-64)132. Benedict V (964)133. John XIII (965-72)134. Benedict VI (973-74)135. Benedict VII (974-83)136. John XIV (983-84)137. John XV (985-96)138. Gregory V (996-99)139. Sylvester II (999-1003) Eleventh Century 140. John XVII (1003)141. John XVIII (1003-09)142. Sergius IV (1009-12)143. Benedict VIII (1012-24)144. John XIX (1024-32)145. Benedict IX (1032-45)146. Sylvester III (1045)147. Benedict IX (1045)148. Gregory VI (1045-46)149. Clement II (1046-47)150. Benedict IX (1047-48)151. Damasus II (1048)152. St. Leo IX (1049-54)153. Victor II (1055-57)154. Stephen X (1057-58)155. Nicholas II (1058-61)156. Alexander II (1061-73) Popes of the Age of Crusades and Councils Eleventh Century 157. St. Gregory VII (1073-85)158. Blessed Victor III (1086-87)159. Blessed Urban II (1088-99)160. Paschal II (1099-1118) Twelfth Century 161. Gelasius II (1118-19)162. Callistus II (1119-24)163. Honorius II (1124-30)164. Innocent II (1130-43)165. Celestine II (1143-44)166. Lucius II (1144-45)167. Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)168. Anastasius IV (1153-54)169. Adrian IV (1154-59)170. Alexander III (1159-81)171. Lucius III (1181-85)172. Urban III (1185-87)173. Gregory VIII (1187)174. Clement III (1187-91)175. Celestine III (1191-98)176. Innocent III (1198-1216) Thirteenth Century 177. Honorius III (1216-27)178. Gregory IX (1227-41)179. Celestine IV (1241)180. Innocent IV (1243-54)181. Alexander IV (1254-61)182. Urban IV (1261-64)183. Clement IV (1265-68)184. Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)185. Blessed Innocent V (1276)186. Adrian V (1276)187. John XXI (1276-77)188. Nicholas III (1277-80)189. Martin IV (1281-85)190. Honorius IV (1285-87)191. Nicholas IV (1288-92)192. St. Celestine V (1294) Popes of the Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism Thirteenth Century 193. Boniface VIII (1294-1303) Fourteenth Century 194. Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04) The Avignon Papacy Begins 195. Clement V (1305-14)196. John XXII (1316-34)197. Benedict XII (1334-42)198. Clement VI (1342-52)199. Innocent VI (1352-62)200. Blessed Urban V (1362-70)201. Gregory XI (1370-78) The Avignon Papacy EndsGreat Schism Begins 202. Urban VI (1378-89)203. Boniface IX (1389-1404) Fifteenth Century 204. Innocent VII (1404-06)205. Gregory XII (1406-15) Great Schism Ends Popes of the Renaissance and Reformation Fifteenth Century 206. Martin V (1417-31)207. Eugene IV (1431-47)208. Nicholas V (1447-55)209. Callistus III (1455-58)210. Pius II (1458-64)211. Paul II (1464-71)212. Sixtus IV (1471-84)213. Innocent VIII (1484-92)214. Alexander VI (1492-1503) Sixteenth Century 215. Pius III (1503)216. Julius II (1503-13)217. Leo X (1513-21)218. Adrian VI (1522-23)219. Clement VII (1523-34)220. Paul III (1534-49)221. Julius III (1550-55)222. Marcellus II (1555)223. Paul IV (1555-59)224. Pius IV (1559-65) Popes of the Age of Revolution Sixteenth Century 225. St. Pius V (1566-72)226. Gregory XIII (1572-85)227. Sixtus V (1585-90)228. Urban VII (1590)229. Gregory XIV (1590-91)230. Innocent IX (1591)231. Clement VIII (1592-1605) Seventeenth Century 232. Leo XI (1605)233. Paul V (1605-21)234. Gregory XV (1621-23)235. Urban VIII (1623-44)236. Innocent X (1644-55)237. Alexander VII (1655-67)238. Clement IX (1667-69)239. Clement X (1670-76)240. Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)241. Alexander VIII (1689-91)242. Innocent XII (1691-1700) Eighteenth Century 243. Clement XI (1700-21)244. Innocent XIII (1721-24)245. Benedict XIII (1724-30)246. Clement XII (1730-40)247. Benedict XIV (1740-58)248. Clement XIII (1758-69)249. Clement XIV (1769-74)250. Pius VI (1775-99) Nineteenth Century 251. Pius VII (1800-23) Popes of the Modern Age Nineteenth Century 252. Leo XII (1823-29)253. Pius VIII (1829-30)254. Gregory XVI (1831-46)255. Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)256. Leo XIII (1878-1903) Twentieth Century 257. St. Pius X (1903-14)258. Benedict XV (1914-22)259. Pius XI (1922-39)260. Pius XII (1939-58)261. St. John XXIII (1958-63)262. Blessed Paul VI (1963-78)263. John Paul I (1978)264. St. John Paul II (1978-2005)265. Benedict XVI (2005-2013)266. Francis (2013—) Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation ThoughtCo. "Popes of the Catholic Church." Learn Religions, Oct. 13, 2021, learnreligions.com/popes-of-the-catholic-church-542333. ThoughtCo. (2021, October 13). Popes of the Catholic Church. Retrieved from https://www.learnreligions.com/popes-of-the-catholic-church-542333 ThoughtCo. "Popes of the Catholic Church." Learn Religions. https://www.learnreligions.com/popes-of-the-catholic-church-542333 (accessed June 3, 2023). copy citation