Pope Innocent XIII was born with the given name of Michelangelo dei Conti in the year 1655 A.D., and died in 1724 A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1721 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1724 A.D., during the Early Modern. Innocent XIII was from Rome, and his papal number is: 244 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.

Summary: Pope of short reign who continued opposition to Jansenism.

Innocent XIII inherited the theological and diplomatic difficulties of the previous age, especially tensions related to Jansenism and relations among Catholic monarchies. His reign was brief but not insignificant, for he maintained a clear doctrinal stance in unsettled circumstances.

He continued ordinary curial governance and represented a papacy now more bureaucratic and less overtly dynastic than in earlier centuries. Even short reigns contributed to this steady institutional maturation.

Innocent XIII remains a modest but competent figure of the early eighteenth-century Church.