* Pope Alexander I succeeds Pope Evaristus as the sixth pope – traditionally.

Pope Saint Evaristus is accounted the fifth Pope, holding office from c. 99 to 107 AD or from 99 to 108.

There is no confirmation of this in the case of Pope Evaristus, who is listed without that title in the Roman Martyrology, with a feast day on 26 October.

* Writings attributed to Pope St Evaristus

* Patron Saints Index: Pope Saint Evaristus

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Burial near Peter, on Vatican Hill, is attributed to: Pope Linus, Pope Anacletus, Pope Evaristus.

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* 236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.

* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.

* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.

* 235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.

* August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel.

* March 2 – Pope Pius XII ( Cardinal Pacelli ) succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th pope.

* August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.

* June 21 – Pope Paul VI ( Giovanni Battista Montini ) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.

* May 13 – Pope Gregory XIII succeeds Pope Pius V as the 226th pope.

** Papal Conclave of 1623: Pope Urban VIII ( Maffeo Barberini ) succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.

* 590: Gregory the Great succeeds Pope Pelagius II ( who dies of plague ) as the 64th pope.

* August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.

* October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605.

* March 31, 1829 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII as the 253rd pope.

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* 1314 – Pope Clement V ( b. 1264 )

* 1652 – Pope Clement XII ( d. 1740 )

* Pope Clement VI ( 1291 – 1352, r. 1342 – 52 )

Immediately after his appointment as Cardinal, Pope Clement made him a Cardinal Inquisitor, in which capacity he served as one of the judges at the trial of Giordano Bruno, and concurred in the decision which condemned Bruno to be burned at the stake as a heretic.

Jacopo Buonaparte was a friend and advisor to Medici Pope Clement VII.

The Council entrusted to the Pope the implementation of its work ; as a result, Pope Pius IV issued the Tridentine Creed in 1565 ; and Pope Pius V issued in 1566 the Roman Catechism, in 1568 a revised Roman Breviary, and in 1570 a revised Roman Missal, thus standardizing what since the 20th century has been called the Tridentine Mass ( from the city's Latin name Tridentum ), and Pope Clement VIII issued in 1592 a revised edition of the Vulgate.

Under Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ), troops of the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Papal Rome in 1527, “ raping, killing, burning, stealing, the like had not been seen since the Vandals ”.

Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ) was vehemently against the idea of a council, agreeing with Francis I of France.

When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters.

Clement studied under Pantaenus, and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Julian before 189.

In 1533 he was allowed to accompany Dom Martinho de Portugal to Rome on an embassy to Pope Clement VII, to whom Father Álvares delivered the letter Lebna Dengel had written to the Pope.

Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

In 1343 the interval between Holy Years was reduced by Pope Clement VI to fifty years.

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

He went to Italy, escaped from arrest at Genoa, and had to take refuge among the Apennines, Pope Clement XI, who was his bitter enemy, having given strict orders for his arrest.

In 1343 he had been sent to Pope Clement VI at Avignon to negotiate a grant of a tax on the revenues of the Church for the Crusade.

In August 1524 Pope Clement VII appointed Aleandro the Archbishop of Brindisi, for which office he was ordained to the priesthood two months later.