Links between popes

Links between popes

Familial Connections

There have been several papal families:
*Pope Hormisdas was the father of Pope Silverius.

*The Borgias provided several Popes, as did the Medici family.

*Many Popes up to the early Renaissance engaged in nepotism - appointing younger male relatives to important ecclesiastical and other posts.

Medici Popes and Cardinals

*Giovanni de' Medici (1475–1523), became Pope Leo X (Pope 1513-1523)

*Giulio de' Medici (1478–1534), became Pope Clement VII (Pope 1523-1534) (cousin of Pope Leo X)

*Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici (1535–1605), became Pope Leo XI (Pope 1605)

The following were Medici Cardinals:

*Ippolito de' Medici (1511–1535), Cardinal
*Giovanni de' Medici (1543–1562), bishop of Pisa and cardinal
*Carlo de' Medici (1595-1666), Dean of the College of Cardinals
*Giovanni Carlo de' Medici (Giancarlo) (1611–1663), Bishop of Sabina, created cardinal in 1644
*Leopoldo de' Medici (1617–1675), created cardinal in 1667
*Francesco Maria de' Medici (1660–1711), Cardinal

Coincidences and other non-familial connections

*The first popes to die in the 20th and 21st centuries were the (then) third-longest serving popes (Leo XIII and John Paul II).

*Pius XI and John Paul II were mountaineers.

*Benedict XIV died on the same night as the head of the Jesuit order (otherwise known as the Black Pope).

*Pope Paul VI appointed his three successors (John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI) as Cardinals.

*Pope Leo XIII in 1899, considering the forthcoming Papal Jubilee that he had, attended the last one in 1825, and had been presented to Leo XII.

ee also

*Cardinal-nephew
*List of Cardinal-nephews


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