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Pope Pius V on the millennium & Christ's return

1504 – 1572 · ROMAN CATHOLIC
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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Nothing found. Article VII speaks of two comings of Christ, the second "at the end of the world to judge all mankind", and of a general judgment on one day; it never mentions a thousand years or reads Revelation 20. That is compatible with more than one view and is not taken here as amillennialism.

SCRIPTURE
1 THESSALONIANS 5:2 · BSB

2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Amillennial — the millennium is the present church ageAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · CALVIN · MATT CHANDLER · TIM KELLER · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · R.C. SPROUL
Premillennial — Christ returns before a future millenniumBILLY GRAHAM · IRENAEUS · JOHN MACARTHUR · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER
Postmillennial — the gospel triumphs before Christ returnsJONATHAN EDWARDS · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · JOHN OWEN
No required position; several views held faithfullyATHANASIUS · M. HEISER · JOSH HOWERTON · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Michele Ghislieri, a Dominican friar and inquisitor, was pope from 1566 to 1572 and carried the Council of Trent's decrees into practice. Under his authority came the Roman Catechism (1566), the reformed Breviary (1568) and Missal (1570), and the bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus (1567) on the teaching of Michael Baius; he also named Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. He wrote little theology of his own, so this entry rests on what he promulgated: the Roman Catechism, read in the McHugh and Callan translation, a commission's work issued by his order, and the 1567 bull in Deferrari's translation of Denzinger.

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"Pope Pius V on the millennium & Christ's return", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/millennium (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/millennium).

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