Pope Clement

There have been fourteen popes named Clement.

  • Pope Clement I saint, (88–98)
  • Pope Clement II (1046–1047)
  • Pope Clement III (1187–1191)
  • Pope Clement IV (1265–1268)
  • Pope Clement V (1305–1314) — memorable for suppressing the Knights Templar, and moving papacy to Avignon
  • Pope Clement VI (1342–1352) — known for being the Pope during the Black Death
  • Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) — refused to annul the marriage of Henry VIII, thus prompting the English Reformation
  • Pope Clement VIII (1592–1605)
  • Pope Clement IX (1667–1669)
  • Pope Clement X (1670–1676)
  • Pope Clement XI (1700–1721)
  • Pope Clement XII (1730–1740)
  • Pope Clement XIII (1758–1769)
  • Pope Clement XIV (1769–1774)

There have also been two antipopes named Clement.

  • Antipope Clement III (1080–1085)
  • Antipope Clement VII (1378–1394) First Avignon Pope

Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or clement:

    “Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
    You’ve played, and loved, and eat, and drunk your fill:
    Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
    Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage:
    Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
    Whom Folly pleases, and whose follies please.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Clinging close with the crush of the Python,
    When she maketh her murderous meal!”
    —Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)