He papal name It represents the identity that a Pope assumes after his choice and under which his pontificate will exercise. This tradition remains in both the Catholic Church and in the Copta Orthodox Church, where its top leaders adopt a new name by assuming their position.
The practice of Changing name was not always a constant. The potatoes of the first centuries of Christianity retained their baptismal names by accessing the pontifical throne. This tradition began to transform during the seventh century and was consolidated as a usual practice towards the 10th century. From 1555, the adoption of a new papal name became an invariable standard For every newly chosen pontiff.
A notable characteristic of papal names is their Linguistic adaptationaccording to each language. The name of Pope Francis, who opened the way for this conclave after his death, is expressed as ‘Franciscus’ in Latin (official language of the Holy See), ‘Francesco’ in Italian (Language of the city of the Vatican), Francisco in his native Spanish, ‘Francis’ in English, ‘François’ in French and ‘Franziskus’ in German, demonstrating the universality of his figure through different cultures. Bergoglio wanted to make a wink to San Francisco de Asís, he also wanted to demonstrate a new course when choosing a rare name for the pontiff saints.
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Statistically, the most common name among those chosen by the conclave and, therefore, future potatoes has been Juan, 22 potatoes and 8.3% Of the 264 potatoes. Second and third name, Gregorio y Benedictthey are tied with 16 potatoes and 6.1% of the 264 potatoes.
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The rest of the names, 71, total the remaining 50%including Francisco, the name of the last Pope. We encourage you to vote in this survey to know if the next Pope, chooses one of the three most popular names or a different one.
We will have to wait for the white smoking and the We have a pope To know the definitive name of the next pontiff of the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, here you can read about the favorites and their positions on the six most controversial themes of the Catholic Church.
Asking the AIboth Claude and Chatgpt, have responded that there are high probabilities that the name be Juan Pablo IIIin the writing of ‘Euronews’ the most likely name, according to our internal vote, is Gregory.
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