The new Bob chooses Liu as the papal name. This is why Pontef changes their names and what it means.

Cardinal Robert Brevost has been announced The new Pope And he chose the name of Pope Liu XIV.

There are no written rules or official criteria for the name of the Pope, but they choose names that have meaning in the Catholic traditions.

The importance of the name of the Pope

Dennis Doyle, a theologian and a professor of fine in religious studies at the University of Dayton, said that the name chosen by the new Pope “indicates a spirit, direction and vision of the new Pope.”

“The first thing you are looking for will be, which of the popes was this name before?” He said. “This would indicate something about the direction that the Pope wants to take.”

Liu was chosen 13 times before. The last, Pope Liu XIII, was the church head between 1878 and 1903.

Pope FrancisHe chose the name of his birth, Jorge Mario Bergolio, a papal name that the Pope did not choose before, so in his case, “You have to ask, are there any personalities or people in the tradition who had this name?”

For Francis, Saint Francis Asisi, known for his charitable institution and simplicity.

What are the most common papal names?

The names were the most used by the Popes:

• John: 23 times
• Benedict: 16 times
• Gregory: 16 times
• Clement: 14 times
• Liu: 14 times
• Breaking: 13 times
• Pius: 12 times

“There can be more than one reference in the name chosen by the Pope,”

For example, Pope Benedict XVI The fifteenth Benedict, who led the church during the First World War, and also to Saint Benedict from Bursa, who established the Bindikin regime and affected the spread of Christianity throughout Europe.

Doyle said that John’s name, the most popular, could refer to the Gospel of John, one of the “most beloved gospels”. It can also refer to St. John the Baptist, the Prophet who baptized Jesus.

Have the popes always changed their names?

Not all Pope in history is not his name. Of the 266 Popes, 129 new names have chosen, according to Vatican News.

This practice has become more licensed in the eleventh century, a period of the German popes that chose the names of the early church’s bishops than “the desire to refer to continuity.”

For centuries, the new popes tend to choose the name of the Pope, which brought them to the Cardinal.

Reagoli said that from the door of the new legs they only started in the middle of the twentieth century in choosing names indicating the goal of the papacy.

The names were not chosen by the Pope

Some of the biblical names that the Pope did not use are Joseph, James and Andrew.

Experts say that the popes did not choose the name Peter, in respect of Saint Peter, a student of Jesus, who is recognized as the first of the Pope.

Associated Press

He contributed to this report.