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This documentation covers the two closely related templates Template:Incumbent pope and Template:Incumbent pope 2.
For use in templates or in article infoboxes in which there is a separate "Pope" attribute. Syntax: [[Pope <papal name>|<papal name>]]
. For articles that do not have a separate "Pope" attribute, use ((Incumbent pope 2)).
((Incumbent pope))
produces "Francis".For use in templates or in article infoboxes in which there is no separate "Pope" attribute. Syntax: [[Pope <papal name>]]. For articles that have a separate "Pope" attribute, use ((Incumbent_pope)).
((Incumbent pope 2))
produces "Pope Francis".Following the death or the resignation of the reigning pope, please update both ((Incumbent pope)) and ((Incumbent pope 2)) to ''[[Sede vacante]]''
until a new pope is elected. When the name of the new pope is announced, update ((Incumbent pope)) to [[Pope <papal name>|<papal name>]]
and ((Incumbent pope 2)) to [[Pope <papal name>|Pope <papal name>]]
. The Roman numeral, if there is one, should be preceded with a non-breaking space (
) in the piped-link text, as per the guideline at MOS:NBSP.
[[Pope John XXIII|John XXIII]]
produces "John XXIII".[[Pope John XXIII|Pope John XXIII]]
produces "Pope John XXIII".Example infobox (((Incumbent pope))) | |
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Pope | Francis |
((Infobox
| header1 = Example infobox (((tl|Incumbent pope)))
| label2 = Pope
| data2 = ((Incumbent pope))
))
Example infobox (((Incumbent pope 2))) | |
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Sovereign | Pope Francis |
((Infobox
| header1 = Example infobox (((tl|Incumbent pope 2)))
| label2 = Sovereign
| data2 = ((Incumbent pope 2))
))
Inserts the name of the current pope
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