who"s heard of the Black Pope? in the Catholic church?

Question

who knows about the black pope?

i mean i have researched it and read up on it, just sayin im 45 yrs old and had never heard the term. just wondering how many have heard of them

ok good , yea but no it has nothing to do with race. ne way a yea they r a powerful group of jesuits.

NO NO, it has nothing to do with race. ah ha so i see, im not the only one to whom this is and well was a mystery

Answer 1

There have been three African popes:
• St. Victor I (189-199) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15408a.htm
• St. Melchiades (311-314) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10318a.htm
• St. Gelasius (492-496) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06406a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Below is an article taken from The Times Online - the website for The Times and Sunday Times and is dated 4th Feb 2006

The head of the Jesuits, known as the “Black Pope” because of his black robes, is to step down voluntarily for the first time in the order’s 500-year history.

Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, a Dutch prelate who has been Jesuit Superior General since 1983, resigned after tensions between the liberal-minded Jesuits and more conservative forces in the Roman Catholic Church. Since the election of Pope Benedict XVI last April a battle has been fought between the Jesuits and the conservative Opus Dei for control of the Vatican’s media operations.

The Vatican said that Father Kolvenbach wanted to “hand the baton to a younger man”, and that Pope Benedict XVI had given his blessing to the move. Father Kolvenbach will stand down in 2008, when he is 80. The Jesuits, the largest Catholic order, are said to have led opposition to the election of Pope Benedict.

Now I could be wrong in saying this but I don't think he did step down.

Hope this answers your question for you

JB

Answer 3

The term "black pope" refers to the leader of the Jesuit order. It's not an official title. It came about because the leader of the Jesuits wears vestments that look very much like the real Pontiff's except for one thing - the vestments, for the "black pope" are, as you may have guessed, black.

I first came across it when someone told me the "real" pope of the Church was the "black pope". And, considering the fact that the vestments were black, "confirms" that the "real" pope is a front for Satan, yada, yada, yada.

It's an incredibly stupid - but very real - claim anti-Catholics assert from time to time.

Answer 4

Black Pope. This was a term coined in the late 60's early 70's in reference to Anton Szandor LaVey. He was the founder of the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California in the late 60's. It was in reference to the authority he held over the followers of the church and in the Satanist community ingeneral at the time, the claim being that he had the influence over them that the Pope in Rome does over Catholics. Other than that I have never heard the term used in reference to anyone and since his death a few years ago I seriously doubt it will be used again unless another with his influence surfaces.

Answer 5

The black pope is the leader of the Jesuits. He is called this because of what he wears. He still looks to the Pope as the leader of catholicism.

Answer 6

There were a many black Saints such as Moses The Black who was an Ethiopian who was born in 330 A.D. and Benedict the Moor who was born in 1526. Look them up and read about the good lives they led.

Answer 7

I have. Someone here wrote about it. Do a search.

It was somewhere between 100 and 700 AD.

In fact, I beleive he said there were two.

Answer 8

There never has been a black Pope.