Has a former Pope ever been cremated?

Answer 1

I don't think so. The Catholic Church has traditionally been against cremation.

However a number of the early popes were martyred but the method of martyrdom was not recorded. So possible one or more of them was burned to death.

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Catholics along with most Christians belive in the eventual resurrection of our bodies.

Cremation has been looked at as a denial of this doctrine but modern teaching recognizes that God is all powerful and cremation is not really an issue to our bodily resurrections.

The policy of the Catholic Church is: "While the Church recommends that the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed, cremation is permitted as long as it had not been chosen for reasons contrary to Church teaching.

Cremated remains are to be treated with the same respect given to the remains of a human body, and should be buried or entombed. The scattering of cremated remains on the sea or on the ground, or keeping them in the home, is not the reverent final disposition that the Church requires.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I don't believe so.

While we're on the subject: contrary to popular belief, cremation is permitted by the Catholic Church, provided that cremation isn't done for anti-Christian purposes.

Centuries ago, some people wished to be cremated after death in order to make a posthumous declaration that they didn't believe in an afterlife or in the resurrection.

In other words, cremation was a posthumous, public declaration of rejection of a basic tenet of Christianity.

Nowadays, of course, people don't opt for cremation for that reason. As long as that is the case, cremation is okay in Catholicism.

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Answer 3

I should like to be Cremated when the Lord My God arresteth my Soul, that the breath of Zeus may carry the ashes of the King of Israel unto the World, and THEREBY the World shall prosper.

Verily Aaron Zachariah hath spoken.

Answer 4

no.