Show 1 Recurring Titles of Popes During the past years the eight popes of the period have restricted s. s themselves to the three names Pius l iLeo Teo o and Gregory If It tho the new pontiff bad had elected to be styled Urban Boniface Boni Boat face rac Benedict Adrain Marcellus Innocent Innocent In In- Sixtus or some other of the historic names in the annals of the papacy his choice would have been I welcomed by the lovers of a a little variety Now however there Is a real Pius Piu X Instead of the Imaginary o one e es drawn by Hall Caine in The Eternal City Fourteen popes took the title of Clement The last of the Clementine Clementine Clementine Clemen Clemen- tine pontiffs who resigned from 1769 to 1774 earned the unique nickname of the protestant pope by suppressing suppressing suppress suppress- ing the Jesuits In every land Numerically Numerically Num Num- John has been the most popular popular popular pop pop- ular title with the Popes twenty-three twenty of them choosing it ft No pope has been or ever will be presumptuous enough to call himself Peter II but there have been five Pauls i |