Saint Agapetus I: Quick Facts

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Born	Rome • Italy
Died	April 22, 536
Title / Office	pope (535-536)

Gregory VII excommunicating Henry IV

St. Gregory VII

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St. Gregory the Great

St. Gregory the Great

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Innocent III

Innocent III

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John XXIII

St. John XXIII

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Photograph of Pope Pius IX

Pius IX

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Pius XII

Pius XII

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Boniface VIII

Boniface VIII

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Paul III

Paul III

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Leo X

Leo X

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Pope Paul VI stands behind microphones with both arms raised, wearing white papal robes and glasses, during a public appearance in Geneva.

St. Paul VI

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Pope Leo XIII seated in formal papal robes and cape, wearing a cross necklace, facing forward, in a black and white portrait from 1878.

Leo XIII

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Medallion depicting Pope Julius II

Julius II

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Pope Innocent IV

Innocent IV

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Alexander III

Alexander III

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Montúfar, Antonio: Saint Francis of Assisi Appearing Before Pope Nicholas V, with Donors

Nicholas V

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Pius V

St. Pius V

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Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy

Gregory IX

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Pius II

Pius II

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Pius X, 1903

St. Pius X

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St. Celestine V

St. Celestine V

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Holy week. Easter. Valladolid. Procession of Nazarenos carry a cross during the Semana Santa (Holy week before Easter) in Valladolid, Spain. Good Friday

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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A

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