Is there ever was a female POPE in the history of Christianity?

Answer 1

There has never been a female Pope in the history of Christianity or Catholic Christianity. I mention the broader idea of Christianity because at one time all priests in the Eastern churches might have been called Pope and the Coptic Church today also has a spiritual leader called Pope.

This fictional story of Pope Joan was written in the very late 1800's 1890-1899. I can't believe someone on here thought it was real than again some people think the davinci code is real.

Jon W you've been brainwashed I'll pray for you goto www.catholicinsight.com and look up SDA that might help with your brainwashing.

Answer 2

If there was no Pope Joan, then why is there a ceremonial chair in the Vatican with a hole in it, and why did they institute a ritual for a Cardinal to check, after which it was announced, in Latin, that there are testicles? This came AFTER the time that a woman, masquerading as man, became Pope. The Church wants people to believe that Pope Joan is a fiction, but I don't believe anything the Vatican says.

Answer 3

Not that I know of. The Pope is more a national leader than a religious one. This is going to anger quite a few (if not all) Catholics reading this. But the history of the ROMAN Catholic church is full of lies, hypocrisy, and conspiracy. The invention of hell as an eternal torture (from a loving God, of course) is one of the big lies. For all the "Christians" getting ready to celebrate the winter solstice or, as it is more commonly referred to as "Christmas." Both this celebration Christmas, and the invention of hell is just a way for the church to more easily convert other pagan religions into there service so they too can add to the collection plate. The Roman Emperor Constantine made Catholicism the state church, changed the Sabbath from the last day of the week (Saturday) to the first (Sunday) and was the first Roman emperor to "embrace" Christianity. There has never been a female emperor in Rome, and as such, there has never been a female Pope in Rome's new government. Catholicism has always been a way to influence the belief of the people, in order to make them easier to rule. Christ said that if you repent and accept that He died for the sins of all mankind, you are saved. He said nothing about confessing your sins to another sinner (Catholic priests, whom, as men are sinners by our nature, myself included) but to God himself. You don't need a middle-man to talk to God. Seek the Holy Spirit and you shall receive it. Heaven comes to Earth after the second coming of Christ, and Hell as it appears in the Bible is either translated from the Greek Hades, which is the underworld and also a hole in the ground where we put dead people (the grave). Also, in some cases from gehenna a Hebrew word referring to an actual place, a dump where trash and the bodies of criminals were burned to keep the vermin, disease, and odor down. Heaven as it appears is actually a reference to the sky (the heavens, think Knights and nobles, thee, thou... it's a language barrier in the KJV translations) The kingdom of Heaven however, is real, but we don't go there. The Earth is remade into a paradise. The salvation Christ is referencing is the salvation from eternal death, the true punishment. If we all had a immortal soul as so many would have you believe, we would not have needed Christ's sacrifice. By the way, the Christmas tree, specifically the act of bringing an evergreen tree into the home during the winter solstice dates back to Egyptian traditions and it symbolized eternal life. However, it does this without Christ, and therefore is a mockery of His sacrifice.
I leave you with God's most important commandment to His Creation ...

"Thou shalt have no other god before Me." -the word of God

Oh and one more hypocrisy of some "Christian" churches is the acceptance of the THEORY of evolution.
Evolution has no fossil evidence of any species to species transitions, and geographical evidence supports Creation, so on another side topic if you claim to be Christian and believe Evolution, you are deceived, you can't have both, either the universe and life created itself (includes "Intelligent Design" b.s.) or God did. What makes since to YOU. All of us have at least some of the Holy Spirit within ourselves (distant, though it may be for some) or we wouldn't be alive. Listen to reason, and your heart (another word for common sense) and tell me. Did we just blink into existence and evolve from single-celled creatures (even though no evidence, only talk and ideas, has ever been shown), or did God make it. Answer for yourselves. Don't take my word for it.

Answer 4

No. There is a story about a Pope Joan, but she was fictional.

I'd give it another 100 years.

Answer 5

There is a story that one of the popes was secretly a woman, but i can't remember much more than that

Answer 6

No because a pope is catholism and the catholics do not have popes that are females, they believe in belittling females because men are in control. so no.

Answer 7

no and the Catholic church is not against women or chauvinist. the Catholics hold Mary second only to god. no other religion has a women held in as high esteem {that i know off} because we dint have women priests does not mean we think the are inferior.
a religion is a personal choice if you do not believe In Catholicism or Islam or Hindi go and find a religion that suits you. there are a lot of people here that are just to fond off putting down each others beliefs are religions every one to there own.

Answer 8

Yes there was, she was Pope John VIII / Joan 853-855. She/he was discovered giving birth on the side of the road, then she was dragged behind her horse and stoned to death the legend goes. Her body was then burned.

Answer 9

No but a Bishop woman went for POPE once or twice.

Answer 10

To my knowledge never, women seriously need to look at religion and why including Islam they dont have a status any higher than baby factories.