Catholic Popes

Popes of the Roman Catholic Church

1775-1801: Pius VI

Giovanni Angelo Braschi

1801-1808: Benedict XI

Henry Benedict Stuart


-elected with little French influence due to French Wars > First French War (1792-1804)

-the Jacobite claimant for the British crown under the Heads of British Isles > Stuart Line

1808-1830: Leo XII

Giulio Maria della Somaglia

1830-1831: Interregnum

-due to French Wars > Second French War (1821-32) held in Palerno, Sicily

1831-1839: Leo XIII

Emmanuele de Gregorio

1839-1858: Pius VII

Luigi Lambruschini


-faced with French Wars > Third French War (1847-1854)

-fall of Rome

-forced to flee to Toledo

-convenes Council of Madrid to approve of papal infallibility

-incites pretty large schism of Independent Catholic churches