Has There Ever Been A Black Pope

The name has only been used by one pope.

There had already been three more alexanders by then so there is now a gap in the numbering sequence. Rns amid all the fevered speculation about who might succeed pope benedict xvi one possibility seems particularly tantalizing. They may or may not have been black. Antipope felix ii 356 357 was kept in the numbering sequence.

They may have been black they may have been white. But in all that time has there really never been a black pope. They were all from the roman province called africa modern day libya. Or an african pope.

Has there ever been a black or african pope. There has always been a black pope since the formation of the jesuits in 1540. Ignatius loyola was the first. Pope victor i 189 to 199.

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If white pope bergoglio fails to do his master s bidding he will most likely meet his end via the poison cup. Of course the coptic church has had many black popes. There have been two catholic popes of african ancestry pope victor i 189 to 199 and pope miltiades 310 311 to 314. That is the roman province of africa which comprises mostly tunisia and libya.

That the conclave. It depends on what you mean by black and by african and answering those questions requires a bit of. Davis said the best bet for what we would consider a black pope is probably victor but he added that the church and the empire of those early centuries were a mosaic of colors and ethnicities. In addition if the question is whether we there has ever been a black catholic pope the answer is no.

It s important for us to look and say that yes the early papacy was not white. The apocryphal pope donus ii resulted from confusion between the latin word dominus lord and the name donus.