Holy Father may refer to: God the Father, the title given to the first person of the Trinity in Christianity and sometimes to a god in other religions. An honorific often used instead of, or prefixed to, the name of the Catholic Pope.

Who is current pope?

Francis is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, in which capacity he is Bishop of Rome and absolute Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European pope since Pope Gregory III in 741.

Is the pope a king?

KERTZER: Well, for a thousand years, the pope was not only a spiritual leader of Roman Catholics, but he was also a king. He ruled over a swath of Italy, although their capital was in Rome. It ranged all the way up to Bologna in the north. So it formed a major part of the Italian peninsula for many, many years.