The last non-European pontiff before him was Pope Gregory III, who reigned from 731 to 741 and was born in what is now Syria. With a span of more than 1,270 years between them, Pope Francis’s ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Cardinal Wilton Gregory, also a South Side native, spoke about their experience in the conclave and electing the first American pope, Leo XIV, who is from this city.

The longest one ever, in the 13th century, took almost three years to choose Pope Gregory X. The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III. How long was the ...

The first American Pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. Robert Prevost, who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV, was elected Thursday after a two-day conclave. New Orleans Archbishop ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, who became the first American pope Thursday, frequently used social media to subtly push back on the Trump administration and its policies, a review of his posts on the ...

After that marathon conclave, Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271. There is no way to predict how long a conclave will take, but guidance can perhaps be taken from recent history.

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis made history in 2013 as the first Jesuit pope and the first pontiff from a religious order in more than a century — the last being Pope Gregory XVI, a ...

The longest conclave on record dragged on for nearly three years. Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271 after about 1,000 days.

The pope it elected, however — pope Gregory X — obviously came away from this experience thinking it was something more cardinals should go through. In 1274, he issued the papal bull Ubi ...

In 1274, at the Second Council of Lyons, Pope Gregory X, in a document titled Ubi Periculum, determined the procedure for holding a conclave. There he specified that the election would be done ...

Of these five Syrian popes, the last three hailed from Muslim ruled lands: Sisinnius from the Rashidun caliphate, and Constantine and Gregory III from the Umayyad caliphate. Until the election of Pope ...