User:Michaelsanders/Popes

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Popes who did not change their name: addressing the irksome phrase, "One of the few Popes who did not change their name on accession."

1. Pope Linus
2. Pope Anacletus
3. Pope Alexander I
4. Pope Sixtus I
5. Pope Telesphorus
6. Pope Pius I
7. Pope Anicetus
8. Pope Eleuterus
9. Pope Zephyrinus
10. Pope Callixtus I
11. Pope Urban I
12. Pope Pontian
13. Pope Anterus
14. Pope Fabian?
15. Pope Cornelius
16. Pope Lucius I
17. Pope Stephen I
18. Pope Sixtus II
19. Pope Dionysius
20. Pope Felix I
21. Pope Eutychian
22. Pope Caius
23. Pope Marcellinus
24. Pope Marcellus I
25. Pope Eusebius
26. Pope Miltiades
27. Pope Sylvester I
28. Pope Mark
29. Pope Julius I
30. Pope Liberius
31. Pope Damasus I
32. Pope Siricius
33. Pope Anastasius I
34. Pope Zosimus
35. Pope Celestine I
36. Pope Leo I
37. Pope Hilarius
38. Pope Simplicius
39. Pope Gelasius I
40. Pope Anastasius II
41. Pope Symmachus
42. Pope Hormisdas
43. Pope Silverius
44. Pope Vigilius
45. Pope Pelagius I
46. Pope John III
47. Pope Benedict I
48. Pope Pelagius II
49. Pope Gregory I, "one of the last Popes not to have changed his name" according to his article
50. Pope Adeodatus I
51. Pope Constantine
52. Pope Zachary
53. Pope Paschal I
54. Pope Theodore II
55. Pope Sergius III
56. Pope Anastasius III
57. Pope Lando
58. Pope John X
59. Pope Leo VI
60. Pope Stephen VII
61. Pope John XI
62. Pope John XIII
63. Pope John XV
64. Pope Adrian VI, who at least is described as "one of the few modern Popes" to not change his name
65. Pope Marcellus II, the last Pope to not change his name.

65 Popes out of 265 is certainly a minority, but hardly 'few'.