John (papal name)

成語所屬單字john

John (papal name) — 慣用語

1. the name taken by twenty-one popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church;

1.慣用語
釋義

教宗若望(二十一位教宗使用的名號;其中最著名的是若望二十三世)

the name taken by twenty-one popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; the most widely known is John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 1881–1963), who served as pope from 1958 to 1963 and called the Second Vatican Council

例句

John XXIII is remembered for opening the Catholic Church to reform during the Second Vatican Council.

No pope has chosen the name John since John Paul I in 1978, though it remains a common papal name.