Name This Pope?

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A church I attend has this stained glass window of a Pope and I am not sure which one he is. Can anyone help identify him?

The windows appear to have been repurposed from an older church and there is a similar one inside which we previously identified as Pope St Gregory the Great. I was expecting this one to be Pope St Pius X but it really doesn’t look like him.

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I don’t think so. The windows likely predate his reign, though I could be wrong on that.

Also the robes on the Pope don’t look like what Pope Paul VI wore. They look more like a Pope from previous centuries.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Also the robes on the Pope don’t look like what Pope Paul VI wore.
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I browsed a few images of Paul VI to recall gown he actually did dress, and this one is interesting:
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The stole he is wearing in this image looks almost exactly the same as the stole worn by the Pope in the stained glass window, IMO.
 
Hmmm, it might well be him after all! Very interesting. I think the church was built right around the time he was installed as Pope, so they could have commissioned a new little window.

I was thinking it was some sainted Pope from the middle ages.
 
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I immediately thought Paul VI too. Not a very good likeness, but the face captured him pretty well.
 
I think the “Ayes” have it and it must be Pope Paul VI, especially with the picture of the stole.

I agree the likeness could be a little better as the Pope on the window appears to have a broken nose and no eyebrows, which is not how I picture Pope Paul VI, but the facial expression is close enough.

Thanks all!
 
That’s what I was thinking as well. While it isn’t perfect, the face in the window looks more like that of Paul VI than any other Pope I can remember.
 
What color are the eyes in the stained glass window? Paul VI’s pale gray eyes are very distinctive.
 
I tried enlarging the photo on my phone, but the eyes are just showing as an indistinct dark color, so “not blue”. Could be gray or brown.
 
Yes it could be Paul VI.

In favor: the shape of the face, the shape of the glasses, the ears

Against: the mouth

Neither for nor against: the eyes, the look

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It looks more like Pius XI to me, even though he is a blessed and not a saint:

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Also, not to stir anything up but I just find it hard to believe a church would have a stained glass image of Paul VI, when the churches constructed after his pontificate largely abandoned ornate stained glass images for abstract and meaningless color tiles.

Although, the brick does look rather new, so it may be Paul VI. I suppose if you knew when the church was constructed, it could help.
 
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Pope Pius XI is not a blessed. As far as I know he doesn’t even have a sainthood cause and seems unlikely to get one soon. It’s Pope Pius IX (the one from the 1800s prior to Pope Leo XIII) who’s the blessed.

I will check on the construction date of the church building next time I go, as the cornerstone shows the date and it’s located very close to this window, however I can’t remember the date shown. I know the parish was founded sometime around 1930 and it was originally Polish and Slovak, however, the interior of the church building is a lot more modern looking and the only thing that looks old about it is the stained glass windows, all of which look early 20th century. Like I said, I was under the impression that the windows were from an older building and were transferred to a newer building, but I could be wrong on that. This Pope window is in an obscure spot and I wondered if it was somehow commissioned later to match the other older windows.
 
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The stole he is wearing in this image looks almost exactly the same as the stole worn by the Pope in the stained glass window, IMO.
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Yes, the same stole appears in several official images of Paul VI but never in Pio XI portraits.
 
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