He is buried in the same chapel as his predecessor, Clement VIII. Pope Clement IX (1600–1669) Statue of Pope Clement IX at his tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore. Credit: Richard Mortel/Flickr.

Then, in 1601, Pope Clement VIII declared the legend to be untrue, ordering the bust removed and replaced by a definitively male pope, Pope Zachary. The Church officially denies the existence of a ...

At the same time popes, and Catholic policy, had profound consequences for European and global politics: Clement’s successor Paul III excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII, cementing the ...

Clement, VIII Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 76 [Exhibited under heading: "The Jarves Collection."] Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, founded as a ...

Pope Francis will not be buried where popes in recent history have been laid to rest. ... St. Pius V, Pope Sixtus V, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Paul V and Pope Clement IX. The latter, who died in ...

Pope Clement VII was saying mass at St. Peter’s at that time and had to be whisked away along a special passage connecting the heart of the Vatican to the Castel Sant'Angelo, the longtime ...

In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV’s successor, making it the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history.