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The pontificate is the form of government used in Vatican City. The word came to English from French and simply means papacy, or "to perform the functions...

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aimed to resolve the Arian controversy. His pontificate also coincided with the baptism of Roman Emperor Constantine I. Sylvester I's pontificate coincided...

priest to be elected pope since John II in 533. Almost nothing is known about Adeodatus I's pontificate. It represents the second wave of opposition to Gregory...

applied to any high or chief priest and, in Roman Catholic ecclesiastical usage, to bishops, especially the Pope, who is sometimes referred to as the Roman...

suggest that both names refer to the same individual. As with much of the earlier papacy, little is known of Anacletus' pontificate. Earlier historical records...

the pontificate of Paul VI, when he died she covered the conclave and pontificate of John Paul I, and after his suppressive death came the pontificate of...

He remained on good terms with Henry for his entire pontificate. In Benedict VIII's pontificate, the Saracens renewed their attacks on the southern coasts...

died 27 January 672) was the bishop of Rome from 30 July 657 to his death. His pontificate was marked by the dispute between the papacy and the imperial...

born in Rome and served as Pope until his death in 676. Adeodatus II's pontificate is extremely obscure. It coincided with a surge of passionate interest...

of the Papal States from February 929 to his death in 931. A candidate of the infamous Marozia, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the...

in a reinterpretation of the Western Schism, extending Gregory XII's pontificate to 1415 and classifying rival claimants Alexander V and John XXIII as antipopes...

list of the 912 saints canonized by Pope Francis (2013–) during his pontificate, which includes the 813 Martyrs of Otranto as a group, 7 whom were equipollently...

Urban's pontificate: Eusebius's history of the early Church and an inscription in the Coemeterium Callisti that names the Pope. Urban ascended to the papacy...

illum took on a sense of renewal that was reflected in the motto of his pontificate. He advanced the Liturgical Movement by formulating the principle of...

scribes) in the papal court during the pontificate of John XII. In 963, he was included in a party that John sent to the newly crowned Holy Roman emperor...

of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and...

from March 931 to his death. The true ruler of Rome at the time was his mother, Marozia, followed by his brother Alberic II. His pontificate occurred during...

the Papal States for just over seven months, from June 928 to his death. His pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum. Leo...

known as Landus) was the pope from c. September 913 to his death c. March 914. His short pontificate fell during an obscure period in papal and Roman history...