There have been 267 popes, and Leo XIV is the 267th. That is the Holy See’s own count: its list of the Supreme Pontiffs runs from Saint Peter, who died in 64 or 67, to Leo XIV, elected on 8 May 2025. One man appears on the list three times, so 265 different men have held the office. It is a long line, and it begins with one man from Bethsaida in Galilee. In nearly two thousand years no pope…

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