Pope Innocent X

Pope Innocent X

Pope Innocent X (Latin: Innocentius X; Italian: Innocenzo X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, Pamphili was trained as a lawyer and graduated from the Collegio Romano. He followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphili as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the position of cardinal-priest of Sant'Eusebio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Innocent X has received more than 518,346 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Pope Innocent X is the 167th most popular religious figure (down from 138th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Italy (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 64th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Innocent X is most famous for being the pope who excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England. He also created the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which was a list of books that Catholics were not allowed to read.