Female popes in science fiction

[jack]

There are science fiction stories where there is a female pope. (Babylon 5 and the Nights Dawn series for instance.) Of course, if you're inventing a fictional pope, you can't easily dodge the decision of what gender they have, so you have to, however awkwardly, suggest a more egalitarian future, or to not do so (even if you decide in your own head that future popes will be split male/female and your book just happens to have a man in).

I'm not sure if those examples just stuck with me because there was a reason to notice them, or if most science fiction stories don't mention a pope AT ALL, so those that choose to mention a female pope might actually form a majority?

How many future fictional popes can you think of at all? (I'm not sure whether to include male popes who are mentioned but not named: presumably include them if anything is said ABOUT them, but not if it's just "civil and religious leaders including .... united in ...")

I looked up fictional popes on wikipedia, and it had some historically fictional popes (TIP: if you don't want to lose count and accidentally skip a pope, DON'T CALL YOURSELF ALL 'JOHN', OK? :)), but no "list of all fictional popes in any book ever" :)

Off the top of my head:

- B5. Female, unnamed?
- Night's Dawn: Pope Eleanor.
- Sparrow: Male, unnamed?