Editing Pope (section)

=== Signature ===
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| alt1      = The signature of Pope Francis
| caption1  = The signature of [[Pope Francis]] during his pontificate
| image2    = Official signature of Pope Leo XIV.svg
| alt2      = The signature of Pope Leo XIV
| caption2  = The signature of [[Pope Leo XIV]] during his pontificate
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Pope Francis signed some documents with his name alone, either in Latin ("Franciscus", as in an [[encyclical]] dated 29 June 2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20130629_enciclica-lumen-fidei.html |title=Encyclical letter ''Lumen fidei'' |access-date=15 January 2021 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115115142/http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20130629_enciclica-lumen-fidei.html |url-status=live}}</ref> or in another language.<ref>Examples are "Francesco" in the frontispiece of the 2013 ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'' published in Italian shortly after his election (''Annuario Pontificio 2013'', Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}) and [https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/it/letters/2014/documents/papa-francesco_20140401_cardinale-baldisseri.html a letter in Italian dated 1 April 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224141237/http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/it/letters/2014/documents/papa-francesco_20140401_cardinale-baldisseri.html |date=24 February 2021 }}.</ref> Other documents he signed in accordance with the tradition of using Latin only and including the abbreviated form "PP.", for the Latin ''Papa'' ("Pope").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01022a.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia:''Ecclesiastical Abbreviations'' |access-date=14 May 2014 |archive-date=7 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707080820/http://newadvent.org/cathen/01022a.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> Popes who have an ordinal numeral in their name traditionally place the abbreviation "PP." before the ordinal numeral, as in "Leo PP. XIV" (Pope Leo&nbsp;XIV), except in papal bulls of canonization and decrees of ecumenical councils, which a pope signs with the formula, "Ego N. Episcopus Ecclesiae catholicae", without the numeral, as in "Ego Leo Episcopus Ecclesiae catholicae" (I, Leo, Bishop of the Catholic Church).