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That would be insulting for all the intelligent and cultured people on this board if it was that simple.
Of course it's a trick question.
 
Adrian Smith!

Seriously - I'm not sure the Catholic world actually knows. I've found several online debates about whether Jesus made Peter the first pope.
 
St. Peter duh. [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
No and no


Whoaaa, Onhell I thought this one would be easy for you


Hint : Keep in mind that the Pope is the bishop of Rome
 
LOL, in other words you mean who was the first dude to say "I rule over all Christendom and I am not sharing my power and authority with the other bishops?
 
You got the point Onhell

But the answer is quite complicated. Retrospectively we call Pope St Peter and all his successors but in fact St Peter's regnal title was 'Head of the church'. His successor's regnal title was 'Bishop of Rome' and the point is that they didn't have more power and authority than any other bishop. The title Pope was added in 384 by Pope Siricius to make a difference between St Peter's successors and the other bishops. But still it was just a title and the Pope had no authority outside is diocese.
The real change came in 590 with Pope Gregory 1st who managed to increase the power of the papacy to the prejudice of the other bishops.

Then you can argue that the Pope is the head of the church and therefore St Peter was the first Pope. But I can answer that by that time it didn't have the same meaning as the church wasn't structured as it is nowadays....blah blah blah... and I'm sure some people have spent their lives on that subject.
 
Ok, read the following list carefully.
1 George Washington
2 John Adams, 1797-1801
3 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-09
4 James Madison, 1809-17
5 James Monroe, 1817-25
6 John Quincy Adams, 1825-29
7 Andrew Jackson, 1829-37
8 Martin Van Buren, 1837-41
9 William Henry Harrison, 1841
10 John Tyler, 1841-45
11 James Knox Polk, 1845-49
12 Zachary Taylor, 1849-50
13 Millard Fillmore, 1850-53
14 Franklin Pierce, 1853-57
15 James Buchanan, 1857-61
16 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65
17 Andrew Johnson, 1865-69
18 Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77
19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81
20 James Abram Garfield, 1881
21 Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85
22 Grover Cleveland, 1885-89
23 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93
24 Grover Cleveland, 1893-97
25 William McKinley, 1897-1901
26 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-09
27 William Howard Taft, 1909-13
28 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21
29 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23
30 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29
31 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33
32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45
33 Harry S Truman, 1945-53
34 Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61
35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63
36 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69
37 Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74
38 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77
39 James Earl Carter, 1977-81
40 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89
41 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
42 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993- 2001
43 George W. Bush, 2001-

What is odd about the names of these men (all presidents of the USA, obviously), considering the country which they led?
 
oops sorry wrong question i didnt know there was a new one i read the wrong page [!--emo&:blink:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/blink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'blink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
All of the surnames, or most, are either Irish, English or Scottish. I can't see a common link in the first names.
 
Is it that none of them are called "Sam" which is the stereotypical American. ie. "Uncle Sam"
 
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