Pope Fact #2 - Papal names
Pope Fact #2 - Papal Names
Popes often change their names when they take the oath of office and officially begin their Popedum. The choice of a papal moniker is often a means of symbolically thanking and honoring a past pope. The spanking-new Pope just takes the name of a prior pope and adds a Roman Numeral. One need not look further than our current Pope, John Paul II (JP to his friends) to see this phenomenon in action.
As a result of this practice, some papal names go into the double digit, such as John, Stephen, Barcelona, Dr Dre, and Gregory.
On a personal note, I would just like to thank the 37 popes that have come around since Pope Sixtus V's death in 1590 for showing the self-restraint and maturity not to take the name Sixtus the Sixth.
Popes often change their names when they take the oath of office and officially begin their Popedum. The choice of a papal moniker is often a means of symbolically thanking and honoring a past pope. The spanking-new Pope just takes the name of a prior pope and adds a Roman Numeral. One need not look further than our current Pope, John Paul II (JP to his friends) to see this phenomenon in action.
As a result of this practice, some papal names go into the double digit, such as John, Stephen, Barcelona, Dr Dre, and Gregory.
On a personal note, I would just like to thank the 37 popes that have come around since Pope Sixtus V's death in 1590 for showing the self-restraint and maturity not to take the name Sixtus the Sixth.
posted by BertramWooster at 4:26 PM
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