Comment on Why are popes always really old?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 days agoActually any Catholic man could be Pope, but the cardinals usually pick one of their own.
Comment on Why are popes always really old?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 days agoActually any Catholic man could be Pope, but the cardinals usually pick one of their own.
libra00@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Usually pick one of their own == have never not picked one of their own, right?
polysexualstick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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).
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
It happened six times: …wikipedia.org/…/Category:Non-cardinals_elected_p…
Pope Urban VI was the last to have been elected without having been a cardinal, in 1378.