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Hope you know your popes. Nope? Crossword Puzzle

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More than 250 men have officially led the worldwide Catholic Church. What do you know about this powerful group? Use papal numbers (in Roman numerals) only when specified in the clue.
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    • Complete Clue List

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      1. Pope for 33 days in 1978 (include number)
      7. 10th century pope or administrator of Cloud City
      12. Breathable gas mixture
      13. Latin for unknown name (abbrev.)
      15. Common Irish surname, also a first name (usually masculine)
      16. Second pope, by tradition
      18. One of the most popular papal names means "blessed"
      19. Evil goblin race
      20. Dominican Order of Preachers (abbrev.)
      21. 9th century pope and saint, called "The Great"
      24. Island nation ___ Lanka
      26. One of the branches of the military (abbrev.)
      28. The diocese in Rome is called the Holy ___
      30. Creedless, pluralist religion (abbrev.)
      31. Saved Italy from Attila the Hun
      33. Former US Weather Bureau (abbrev.)
      35. Sicken
      37. Have any popes been married?
      38. Liturgical season preceding Easter
      40. Release, as an encyclical
      42. Internet term: TCP/__ (abbrev.)
      44. Wrath
      45. Sports utility vehicle with a truck bed (abbrev.)
      46. Anti-modernist pope; namesake of Lefebvrist society
      47. Dante placed him in the 8th circle of hell
      50. First note of the diatonic scale
      51. As one voice
      52. 752 pope-elect who died before his consecration
      56. The central figure of the Catholic Church
      57. Mistakenly known as Pope Martin II
      59. Jacob's twin
      61. How many popes have taken the name Adrian?
      63. His papacy lasted 22 days

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      1. Set the traditional date of Christmas
      2. Name shared by a pope and an antipope (including number)
      3. Papal name in the middle ages relates to Passover
      4. Global human rights organisation (abbrev.)
      5. City dweller; Pope for 13 days in 1590
      6. These popes were not guilty!
      8. The Little Mermaid
      9. The Big Apple (abbrev.)
      10. Days on a calendar
      11. Preposition; ___ and off
      14. Relationship of Pius III to Pius II
      17. Ancient city on the Euphrates
      22. Third person conjugate of "to be"
      23. Believed to be the father of his successor, Innocent I (include number)
      25. Regret
      27. This pope's great, great grandson was Gregory the Great
      29. Refused to annul the marriage of Henry VIII
      32. Poetic contraction of "over"
      34. Syrian pope for 3 weeks, succeeded by his brother Constantine
      36. International unit (abbrev.)
      39. Mountain from which Moses saw the promised land
      41. Member of a mystical Islamic faith
      43. Liturgical colour of advent and lent, in Latin
      46. This apostle is regarded at the first pope
      48. 13th Greek letter
      49. Colourless, odorless toxic gas (chemical formula)
      50. Latin for "Our Lord" (abbrev.)
      52. Religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola (abbrev.)
      53. Spain's internet domain
      54. Third person of the trinity (abbrev.)
      55. Pope who completed the second Vatican Council
      57. Prefix meaning "bad"
      58. Yes, to St Teresa of Avila
      59. Formerly known as Uniate Churches (abbrev.)
      60. Northwest about face (abbrev.)
      62. Due to a counting error, there was never a Pope John with this number