Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1897 — Popes in the Chair of Peter. [ARTICLE]

Popes in the Chair of Peter.

The list of pontiffs varies in the works of different authors, not only from the fact that in the first three centuries of the papacy there is much confusion with regard to the names and number of the bishops of Rome, but also that the theological and historical writers baking different views of the controversies which have raged at various times in the church reckon some as antipopes which others count as pontiffs. According to the list furnished by Chambers, from the accession at Peter, A. D. 41, to Leo XIII., in 1878, there have been 260 pontiffs and sixteen antdpopes.