Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.al to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoWhy are popes always really old?message-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down18
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhy are popes always really old?Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.al to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squareLibra00@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·16 days agoUsually pick one of their own == have never not picked one of their own, right?
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoIt happened six times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-cardinals_elected_pope Pope Urban VI was the last to have been elected without having been a cardinal, in 1378.
minus-squarepolysexualstick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoNo. There were 6 popes who hadn’t been cardinals. Although it’s been a few hundred years since the last one (Urban VI., elected in 1378).
minus-squareLibra00@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoInteresting, I didn’t know that. I was gonna say it certainly hasn’t been any of the recent ones.
Usually pick one of their own == have never not picked one of their own, right?
It happened six times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-cardinals_elected_pope
Pope Urban VI was the last to have been elected without having been a cardinal, in 1378.
No. There were 6 popes who hadn’t been cardinals. Although it’s been a few hundred years since the last one (Urban VI., elected in 1378).
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I was gonna say it certainly hasn’t been any of the recent ones.