Leo XIII

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Leo XIII

original name Gioacchino Pecci. 1810–1903, pope (1878–1903). His many important encyclicals include Rerum novarum (1891) on the need for Roman Catholics to take action on various social problems

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His choice of the name Leo has also drawn attention for his namesake, Pope Leo XIII.

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Progressives cheered his announcement based on his papal name choice, an homage to Leo XIII, who was pope between 1878 to 1903.

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The last pope to choose the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, an Italian whose baptismal name was Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci.

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Several popes have explicitly paid homage to Leo XIII’s writings.

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He will become the first Pope since Leo XIII, who died in 1903, to be buried outside the Vatican.

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