Cathedra: Every Pope in History, in One Timeline

Field notes

The timeline organizes papal history into 15 eras, including the Byzantine Papacy, the Western Schism, and the Age of Revolution, rather than presenting a flat succession list. Each entry can be paired with dated context: the visible opening section links Peter to the Council of Jerusalem, the Great Fire of Rome, and Nero’s persecution. The treatment also records uncertainty, describing Linus as a successor known mainly through sparse textual evidence and later tradition.