holy-father-table.html is the <table id="holy-father"> element of the Holy
See's reference table of Roman Pontiffs:
- URL: https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.html
- Retrieved: 2026-07-31
- Extent: the table element only (268
<tr>rows: 1 header + 267 pontificates, Peter through Leo XIV). The surrounding page chrome is not included.
The table's factual content (names, dates, birthplaces) is the seed source of
truth for data/pontiffs.json; scripts/generate_seed.py parses this snapshot,
never the live site, so generation is reproducible and citable. To refresh the
snapshot (e.g. after a new pontificate begins), re-run the extraction documented
in docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-31-crpdr-implementation.md Task 1 and update
the retrieval date here and in the script's SOURCE_RETRIEVED constant.