Stone & Incense Search
Start hereCurious, or no faithEvangelical, Pentecostal or ProtestantFrom another faithSomeone I love is CatholicBecoming CatholicI was Catholic once Today in the ChurchLibraryHard questionsVoices of the revivalTake the next stepAboutSources & methodSupport the site

Home / The popes / Urban VIII

No. 235 of 267

Urban VIII

Pope 1623 to 44.

“Maffeo Barberini, born at Florence in April, 1568; elected pope, 6 August, 1623; died at Rome, 29 July, 1644.”

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)1

Read the full Catholic Encyclopedia article

Stories nearby

A Renaissance portrait of Pope Alexander VI in profile, wearing a red cap.No. 214 · 1492 to 1503Alexander VIThe scandal of the Borgia pope, told straight.The marble monument of Pope St. Pius V in the Sistine Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome: a seated statue of the pope blessing.No. 225 · 1566 to 72St. Pius VA friar who never stopped living like one, a new Missal, and the battle of Lepanto.A photograph of Pope Pius IX in 1875, seated in white cassock and cape.No. 255 · 1846 to 78Blessed Pius IXThe longest reign in papal history, a dogma, a council, and the loss of Rome.

Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Pope Urban VIII”. New Advent edition. newadvent.org

Dates follow the Catholic Encyclopedia’s list of popes; for the earliest popes they are traditional. Photo credits.