Posted on 04/05/2005 2:58:49 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
What papal name do you think the next pope will take?
As I search the list there have never been 3 popes taking the same name in a row. Bookies are giving 7-4 that the next pope will take John Paul III. There was never a double name before John Paul I. Not interested in this thread who will become Pope, just what name do you think he will take? Is there some Pope that the next Pope will want to pattern after besides John Paul II that any new Pope would see the Church in need of? If it were me I might take Urban, but somehow I don't think that that will be it.
Beelzebub Scornius Ludicrus II
[Let's see if anyone else gets it]...
Could be a Pope Palooza maybe.
Sixtux VI.:)
There is no way we can speculate.
However one prophecy says that the person selected/discerned through the guidance of the Holy Spirit will be "gloria olivae" The Glory of the Olive
Maybe from Italy?
Needs one more six...
Couldn't tell you. There have been so many times where there have been "anti-Popes," it's hard to tell which names were used. There probably isn't a complete list of all those who have used the title Pope, but surely there is an official roll. As for me, I am a fan of the adjective-name, but would like to see them try some new ones out. Such as, Magnanimous, Virtuous, something like that.
John Paul George I
Some people think Pepsi is pushing Cardinal Secola so he'll become Pope Secola. My personal feeling is that the fragrance industry will successfully push Ari Fleischer into becoming Pope Ari.:)
Pope Thomas..
I will bet that every candidate has some connection to an olive and no matter who is chosen it will be taken as a sign confirming St. Malachy.
Pope Aleister Nero LeVey Nietzsche I.
I;ll put $10 on Zachary. Think of the payout.
John, Paul, George, Ringo- The Beatles, and John was dead before I was even born, I believe.
Pope St. Agapitus I (d. 536) took the name of a Deacon Saint Agapitus who was martyred with Pope St. Sixtus II in 258. Deacons in the major cities played very important roles--when the church in a given city was small enough to be administered directly by a single bishop, the deacons were their right-hand assistants. Priests were not yet important, though there were elders (presybters) who served as advisors to the bishops but who did not yet have all the sacramental functions, especially the Eucharist, delegated them--the bishop could handle the sacraments himself, for the most part.
As high-profile Christian leaders, these early deacons were targets in persecution--Lawrence of Rome, Vincent of Saragossa in Spain etc. So their deaths were long remembered in the churches they served. The persecution of 258 was one of the worst (empire-wide persecution only began in the 250s), though dwarfed by the last one in the 290s and early 300s, and because it was so violent it was long remembered.
Agapitus I tried mightly to heal the rifts between the Greek and Latin churches--his name itself is Greek, reflecting the time (250s, Deacon Agapitus) when most Christians at Rome were of Greek background--until about 220 the liturgy was celebrated in Greek at Rome, not in Latin. The earliest center of Latin Christianity was in North Africa, not Rome--but that changed in later 200s and the 300s.
Bingo, star!
Pope Pipeus I
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