Who was the best pope in history and why

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Peter, because he was one of Jesus’ peeps AND he got crucified upside down. You don’t get more metal than that.
 
So many layers since so many of them implemented things pertaining to their time and they did it so well.

Pope St. Gregory the Great may be one of my favorites. Pope Leo XIII was incredible too and we got the St. Michael prayer from him.

Pope St. Pius X foresaw the modernist heresy and warned us.
 
Piux V, architect of the Counter Reformation, Innocent III provided much of the dogmatic structure in the church at the Lateran Council we still have today, Urban II who expanded the Church’s breadth back into the Middle East.
 
Perhaps St. Peter. He was the first and he knew our Lord personally.
 
There is an upside down “St. Peter’s Cross” on the stained glass window of a church near my home.
The pastor had to publish an explanation in the bulletin about why it wasn’t satanic.
 
Leo XIII is my personal favorite. I don’t understand why he is not on the path to sainthood.

He was also the first Pope to be filmed and the first to have his voice recorded, saying the “Ave Maria” (starts at 33 seconds on the film clip)

 
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I’m familiar with only St. Peter, JPII, Benedict XIV, and Francis. I’ll give the nod to Peter.
 
Pope Benedict XVI because he is a quiet, thoughtful, and shy man who likes cats. I like that 🙂
 
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Pope Saint John Paul II.

He was a true renaissance style man - athlete, actor, theologian, philosopher, a man of intense prayer, charismatic leader and extensive writer / preacher / teacher.

Traveled the world, literally preaching the Gospel to the four corners of the earth, confronted evil head on: apartheid, communism. Brought down the wall.

Will certainly be known at John Paul the Great at some point.

Oh, and Polish to boot!

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This is like asking who was the best President. In both cases, for most people I expect, it comes down to something more along the lines of “who is our favorite”. So approaching it from that angle I will say Pius XII. Having read a fair bit about him, including most recently “Church of Spies” by Mark Riebling, I think he is one of the great heroes of WWII.
 
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But, great admiration for martyrs like Martin I, who refused to let the Church become the puppet of the Eastern emperor.

Or Pope Calixtus for example, who settled the first antipope controversy, decided our policy on Donatism, and was martyred for the faith.

Or Pope Julius II the warrior pope. Or Urban II, who reclaimed the Holy Land, beginning the Crusader Kingdoms, countries that would last longer than the US has been around.

Or Pius VII, who stood up to Napoleon. Or the Great reformer of the Counter-Reformation Pius V.
 
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