The first pope of the Catholic Church was St. Peter, the apostle.
Since then, there have been a total of 266 popes in a continuous line of apostolic succession spanning almost 2000 years. The current pope (#266) is Benedict XVI.
An entire list of the popes can be found here.
Pretty awesome!
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Posted Jan 28, 2009
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I was able to convert a protestant to the Catholic Church just by showing them a timeline similar to this one.