Papa Emeritus III (Terzo)

NAME Terzo Emeritus

SPECIES Human

GENDER Male

RELATIVES Papa Nihil (Father) Papa Emeritus, Papa Emeritus II (Brothers) Papa Emeritus IV (Half-Brother)

AFFILIATION The Clergy

DATE OF BIRTH Circa 1950s-1960s

NATIONALITY Italian

EYE COLOUR Green(right) White(left)

HEIGHT Around 5'7 to 5'9

Papa III is the "younger brother by three months" of Papa Emeritus II. He made his live debut on June 3, 2015 at a special show in their hometown of Linköping, Sweden. Papa II passed the mic down to his younger brother, who introduced himself in Italian: "Io sono Papa Emeritus... Terzo." Papa III and the ghouls played four new songs: From the Pinnacle to the Pit, Cirice, Majesty, and Absolution. Cirice also won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2016.

Meliora was promoted through the Unholy/Unplugged tour accompanied by two nameless ghouls, where he debut his dressed down outfit and played a kazoo during the unplugged version of Ghuleh/Zombie Queen. They also did a world tour known as Black to the Future.

In September of 2016, they released a new song called Square Hammer off of their EP Popestar. They embarked on the North American Popestar tour. A year later, Papa III went out on tour with a new group of Nameless Ghouls. They did a European Popestar Tour, another North American Popestar tour, and even opened up for Iron Maiden on their Book of Souls tour.

Four music videos were released during his time in the band. The videos were Cirice, From the Pinnacle to the Pit, Square Hammer, and He Is, the latter three of which he features heavily in.

Papa III's reign came to an end on September 30, 2017, beginning a period of sede vacante for Ghost. While the band was performing Monstrance Clock during ritual, two men came up on stage and dragged Papa III away, ending the song abruptly. Soon after, two men came up on stage escorting an elderly papa using a cane and an oxygen mask named Papa Emeritus Zero (later known as Papa Nihil) who addressed the crowd: "The party is over. The middle ages have begun", before being escorted off stage. Papa Zero is later revealed as the father of Papa I, Papa II, and Papa III. At the end of Papa III's era, the band released the live album Ceremony and Devotion.

In March 2018, he along with his brothers Papa Emeritus I and Papa Emeritus II were killed by their father Papa Nihil, Sister Imperator, and the clergy. They were embalmed and put on display on Ghost's Prequelle tour cycle.

SONG LYRICS FOR BOT SITUATION The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer

Another familiar type of love song is the passionate or fiery variety Usually in tango tempo In which the singer exhorts his partner To haunt him and taunt him, and If at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire. This, uh This particular illustration of this genre is called "The Masochism Tango"

I ache for the touch of your lips, dear But much more for the touch of your whips, dear You can raise welts Like nobody else As we dance to the Masochism Tango Let our love be a flame, not an ember Say it's me that you want to dismember Blacken my eye Set fire to my tie As we dance to the Masochism Tango At your command Before you here I stand My heart is in my hand (Yeechh!) It's here that I must be My heart entreats Just hear those savage beats And go put on your cleats And come and trample me Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany That's why I'm in such exquisite agony My soul is on fire It's aflame with desire Which is why I perspire when we tango You caught my nose In your left castanet, love I can feel the pain yet, love Every time I hear drums And I envy the rose That you held in your teeth, love With the thorns underneath, love Sticking into your gums Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches The last time I needed twenty stitches To sew up the gash That you made with your lash As we danced to the Masochism Tango Bash in my brain And make me scream with pain Then kick me once again And say we'll never part I know too well I'm underneath your spell So, darling, if you smell Something burning, it's my heart 'Scuse me! Take your cigarette from its holder And burn your initials in my shoulder Fracture my spine And swear that you're mine As we dance to the Maso-chism Tango