List of Popes from 752 to Today

From 754 the pope was not just the head of the Roman-Catholic church but also ruler of the Papal state in central Europe. That state was first only a fief within the Holy Roman Empire even though the popes with a forged donation letter claimed to be independent from the emperor. After a long conflict between the popes and emperors the latter recognised the papal state's independence 1274.

Popes in red text were anti-popes, an anti-pope was a rivalling pope that was not widely recognised by the church. The flags show what nationality the popes had. The names in green text are the names the popes had before they were elected. Read also the first part of the list of popes (c. 64-752)

752-757	Stephanus II
757-767	Paulus I
767-768 768	Constantinus Philippus
768-772	Stephanus III
772-795	Hadrianus I
795-816	Leo III
816-817	Stephanus IV
817-824	Paschalis I
824-827	Eugenius II
827	Valentinus
827-844	Gregorius IV
844	Ioannes
844-847	Sergius II
847-855	Leo IV
855-858	Benedictus III
855	Anastasius II Bibliothecarius
858-867	Nicolaus I
867-872	Hadrianus II
872-882	Ioannes VIII
882-884	Marinus I
884-885	Hadrianus III
885-891	Stephanus V
891-896	Formosus
896	Bonifacius VI
896-897	Stephanus VI
897	Romanus
897	Theodorus II
898-900	Ioannes IX
900-903	Benedictus IV
903	Leo V
903-904	Christophorus
904-911	Sergius III
911-913	Anastasius III
913-914	Lando
914-928	Ioannes X
928	Leo VI
928-931	Stephanus VII
931-936	Ioannes XI
936-939	Leo VII
939-942	Stephanus VIII
942-946	Marinus II
946-955	Agapitus II
955-964	Ioannes XII	Ottaviano Teofilatto di Spoleto
963-965	Leo VIII
964	Benedictus V
965-972	Ioannes XIII	Giovanni Crescenzio Teofilatto
973-974	Benedictus VI
974, 984-985	Bonifacius VII	Francone
974-983 983-984 985-996 996-999 997-998 999-1003	Benedictus VII Ioannes XIV Ioannes XV Gregorius V Ioannes XVI Silvester II	(Tusculan house) Pietro Canepanova Bruno von Kärnten Ioannes Philagathus Gerbert of Aquitaine
1003 1003-1009 1009-1012 1012-1024 1012 1024-1032	Ioannes XVII Ioannes XVIII Sergius IV Benedictus VIII Gregorius VI Ioannes XIX	Siccone Giovanni Fasano Pietro, detto Boccadiporco Teofilatto I dei comte de Tuscolo Romano dei comte de Tuscolo
1032-1044, 1045, 1047-48	Benedictus IX	Teofilatto II dei comte de Tuscolo
1045 1045-1046 1046-1047 1048 1049-1054 1055-1057	Silvester III Gregorius VI Clemens II Damasus II Leo IX Victor II	Giovanni di Sabina Giovanni Graziano Pierleoni Graf Suidger von Morsleben-Hornbug Poppone Graf Bruno von Egisheim & Dagsburg Graf Gebhard von Dollstein-Hirschberg
1057-1058 1058-1059 1058-1061 1061-1073 1061-1064 1073-1085 1080-1100	Stephanus IX Benedictus X Nicolaus II Alexander II Honorius II Gregorius VII Clemens III	Fredrik of Lorena Giovanni di Velletri, Count of Tuscolo Gerhard of Burgundy Anselmo di Badagio Cadalus di Parma Ildebrando di Soana (Hildebrand) Viberto di Ravenna
1086-1087 1088-1099 1099-1118 1101 1105-1111 1118-1119 1118-1121 1119-1124	Victor III Urban II Paschalis II Adalbert Silvester IV Gelasius II Gregorius VIII Calixtus II	Desiderio dei Duchi di Benevento Odo de Chatillon-sur-Marne Raniero di Bieda Giovanni di Gaeta Mauritius of Braga Guido of Burgundy
1124-1130 1124 1130-1143 1130-1138 1138 1143-1144	Honorius II Celestinus II Innocentius II Anacletus II Victor IV Celestinus II	Lamberto Scannabecchi Teobaldo Buccapeco Gregorio Papareschi Pietro Pierleoni Gregorius Conti Guido Castelli
1144-1145 1145-1153 1153-1154 1154-1159 1159-1181 1159-1164 1164-1168 1168-1178 1179-1180	Lucius II Eugenius III Anastasius IV Hadrianus IV Alexander III Victor IV Paschalis III Calixtus III Innocentius III	Gherardo da Caccianemici Bernardo Pignatelli Corrado della Suburra Nicolaus Breakspear Rolando Bandinelli Ottaviano de Monticelli Guido of Crema Lando Sitino
1181-1185 1185-1187 1187 1187-1191 1191-1198 1198-1216	Lucius III Urban III Gregorius VIII Clemens III Celestinus III Innocentius III	Ubaldo Allucingdi Uberto Crivelli Albertus of Mora Paolo Scolari Jacinto Bobo (Orsini) Lotario dé Conti, count of Segni
1216-1227 1227-1241 1241 1243-1254 1254-1261 1261-1264	Honorius III Gregorius IX Celestinus IV Innocentius IV Alexander IV Urban IV	Cencio Savelli Ugolino de Segni Goffredo Castiglioni Sinibaldo Fieschi Rainaldo Jacques Pamaléon
1265-1268 1271-1276 1276 1276 1276-1277 1277-1280	Clemens IV Gregorius X Innocentius V Hadrianus V Ioannes XXI Nicolaus III	Gui Foulques Tebaldo Visconti Petrus Ottobuono dé Fieschi Petrus Juliani Giovanni Gaetani Orsini
1281-1285 1285-1287 1288-1292 1294 1294-1303 1303-1304	Martinus IV Honorius IV Nicolaus IV Celestinus V Bonifacius VIII Benedictus XI	Simon de Brion Jacopo Savelli Geronimo Masci Pietro del Morrone Benedetto Caetani Nicolaus Bocasini
Popes in Avignon 1305-1371
1305-1314 1316-1334 1328-1330 1334-1342 1342-1352 1352-1362 1362-1370	Clemens V Ioannes XXII Nicolaus V Benedictus XII Clemens VI Innocentius VI Urban V	Bertrand de Got Jacques Duése Pietro Rainalducci Jacques Fournier Pierre Roger de Beaufort Étienne Aubert Guillaume de Grimoard
Popes in Rom
1370-1378	Gregorius XI	Pierre Roger de Beaufort
1378-1389	Urban VI	Bartolomeo Prignano
1378-1394	Clemens VII (Avignon)	Count Robert of Geneva
1389-1404	Bonifacius IX	Pietro Tomacelli
1394-1417	Benedictus XIII (Avignon)	Petrus de Luna
1404-1406 1406-1415 1409-1410 1410-1415	Innocentius VII Gregorius XII Alexander V (Pisa) Ioannes XXIII (Pisa)	Cosimo de Migliorati Angelo de Corrario Pietro Filargi Balthasar Cossa
1417-1431 1423-1429 1425-? 1431-1447 1439-1449 1447-1455 1455-1458	Martinus V Clemens VIII Benedictus Eugenius IV Felix V Nicolaus V Calixtus III	Oddone Colonna Egidius Munoz Gabriele Condulmaro Amadeus VIII of Savoy Tommaso Parantucelli Alfonso de Borgia
1458-1464 1464-1471 1471-1484 1484-1492 1492-1503 1503	Pius II Paulus II Sixtus IV Innocentius VIII Alexander VI Pius III	Enea Silvio dé Piccolomini Pietro Barbo Francesco della Rovere Giovanni Battista Cibo Rodrigo Lanzol (Borgia) Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini
1503-1513 1513-1521 1522-1523 1523-1534 1534-1549 1550-1555	Julius II Leo X Hadrianus VI Clemens VII Paulus III Julius III	Giuliano della Rovere Giovanni dé Medici Adrian Florensz Dedal Giulio dé Medici Alessandro Farnese Giovanni Maria del Monte
1555 1555-1559 1559-1565 1566-1572 1572-1585 1585-1590	Marcellus II Paulus IV Pius IV Pius V Gregorius XIII Sixtus V	Marcello Cervini Giampietro Carafa Giovanni Angelo dé Medici Michele Ghislieri Ugo Buoneocompagni Felice Peretti
1590 1590-1591 1591 1592-1605 1605 1605-1621	Urban VII Gregorius XIV Innocentius IX Clemens VIII Leo XI Paulus V	Giambattista Castagna Niccolò Sfondrati Antonio Fachinetto Ippolito Aldobrandini Alessandro Ottaviano dé Medici Camillo Borghese
1621-1623 1623-1644 1644-1655 1655-1667 1667-1669 1670-1676	Gregorius XV Urban VIII Innocentius X Alexander VII Clemens IX Clemens X	Alessandro Ludovisi Maffeo Barberini Giambattista Pamfili Fabio Chigi Giulio Rospigliosi Emilio Altieri
1676-1689 1689-1691 1691-1700 1700-1721 1721-1724 1724-1730	Innocentius XI Alexander VIII Innocentius XII Clemens XI Innocentius XIII Benedictus XIII	Benadetto Odescalchi Pietro Ottoboni Antonio Pignatelli Giovanni Francesco Albani Michele Angelo Conti Vicenzo Maria Orsini
1730-1740 1740-1758 1758-1769 1769-1774 1775-1799	Clemens XII Benedictus XIV Clemens XIII Clemens XIV Pius VI	Lorenzo Corsini Prospero Lambertini Carlo Rezzonico Giovanni Vincenzo Ganganelli Giovanni Angelo Braschi
1800-1823 1823-1829 1829-1830 1831-1846 1846-1878	Pius VII Leo XII Pius VIII Gregorius XVI Pius IX	Barnabà Luigi Chiaramonte Annibale della Genga Francesco Xaver Castaglioni Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Capellari Count Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti
Popes "prisoners in the Vatican" 1870-1929, thereafter head of state of the Vatican State
1878-1903 1903-1914 1914-1922 1922-1939	Leo XIII Pius X Benedictus XV Pius XI	Vincenzo Giacchino Pecci Giuseppe Sarto Giacomo della Chiesa Achille Rato
1939-1958 1958-1963 1963-1978 1978	Pius XII Ioannes XXIII Paulus VI Ioannes Paulus I	Eugenio Pacelli Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli Giovanni Battista Montini Albino Luciani
1978-2005 2005-2013 2013-	Ioannes Paulus II Benedictus XVI Franciscus	Karol Wojtyla Joseph Ratzinger Jorge Mario Bergoglio