Reign | Hint | Pope | % Correct |
---|---|---|---|
c.30 – c.68 | The leader of the Twelve Apostles, he first Bishop of Rome and thus the first pope. | Peter | 88%
|
2013–present | He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from outside of Europe since Gregory III in the 8th century | Francis | 81%
|
1978–2005 | He was from Poland, making him the first non-Italian pope in over 400 years. In 1981, he was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca, a member of the Turkish terrorist group Grey Wolves | John Paul II | 63%
|
590–604 | One of the “Latin Fathers” of the church, he is considered the founder of the medieval papacy. He famously remarked that some English boys he saw at a slave market were “not Angles, but angels” | Gregory I | 31%
|
1503–1513 | He was nicknamed the “Warrior Pope” for his military ambition in expanding the Papal States. He also instituted the Swiss Guard and commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling | Julius II | 31%
|
1088–1099 | Ordered the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont by declaring "Deus Vult" or "God wills it" | Urban II | 31%
|
1492–1503 | Prominent member of the Borgia family and the father of Cesare and Lucrezia. He excommunicated the Florentine friar Savonarola in 1498 | Alexander VI | 25%
|
1198–1216 | He ordered the disastrous Fourth Crusade and excommunicated Venetian crusaders who changed course from Jerusalem to sack Constantinople | Innocent III | 19%
|
1513–1521 | The son of Lorenzo de Medici whose papacy included the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. He revived the unpopular sale of indulgences to fund the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica | Leo X | 19%
|
1846–1878 | The longest-reigning pope in history, he reigned during Italian unification and remained a “prisoner in the Vatican” after the annexation of the Papal States | Pius IX | 19%
|
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site