Pope Theme Pages

The head of the Roman Catholic Church.

This detail from a 13th century reliquary shows Pope Clement baptising Taurin with St Denis.

This finely composed stained-glass panel (1448) depicts the baptism of Saint Taurin, the first bishop of Évreux, shown receiving the sacrament from Pope Clement in Rome. The scene belongs to the church’s extensive glazing cycle dedicated to the saint’s life, combining hagiographic narrative with the rich ornamental vocabulary of late medieval Norman glass painting.

This stained glass panel depicts Pope Honorius III giving St Francis of Assisi permission to start a monastic order. The panel is the work of Lucien Lobin (c1861).

Pope Pius IX proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Detail of stained glass in Saint-Godard, Rouen.

This fresco of St Gregory the Great is by the Maltese painter Giuseppe Cali. It is part of the decoration below the main dome in the church.