There have been eight Popes and Antipopes named Alexander.
- Pope Alexander I (c. 106 – c. 115)
- Pope Alexander II (1061–1073)
- Pope Alexander III (1159–1181)
- Pope Alexander IV (1254–1261)
- Antipope Alexander V (1409–1410) (Considered to be an Antipope; however, the next Pope Alexander took the name Alexander VI due to confusion over Alexander V's status at the time.)
- Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503)
- Pope Alexander VII (1655–1667)
- Pope Alexander VIII (1689–1691)
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“From pride, from pride, our very reasning springs;
Account for moral, as for natral things:
Why charge we Heavn in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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