I am sure he is not.
But how are we to Know? As he said words have meaning. ; )
Catholic men wrote the books of the New Testament and the Christian Canon was determined by the fathers of the Catholic Church, as well as the Christian creeds, the liturgy, and the theology.
This was before the Catholic Church existed, and the eastern church has as much a right to the same claim, such as it is.
This history of the papacy is dark and disgusting. ( Including two popes murdered by jealous husbands when caught in the act of sex...etc) Any claim of Apostolic succession has been clearly broken, assuming it ever existed at all.
The Orthodox and the Roman Church are one.
Next.
The Apostolic Succession is clear and unbroken.
Next.
One wonders if this is the frontal assault on the Church by elements of either the uninformed or the inebriates, or if it is a feint and the real attack will happen at some point in the distant future after the elevation of the entirely apostate to Congress.
The Catholic Church, one and the same at the time with the Orthodox Church, existed since the Pentecost AD 33. The word "catholic" was first used by St. Ignatius of Antioch in his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans: "wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church" in 1c or at the latest early 2c.
Yes, we had pretty bad popes from time to time. This does not break the apostolic succession though because it cannot.