Peter Mathews
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Peter Mathews, a character of the fictional Left Behind books, was the archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time of the Rapture. He was described as a very traditional Catholic at this time, although he rapidly embraced dramatic changes to the Catholic faith after the Rapture. Shortly after the Rapture, Mathews participated in key meetings to establish the Global Community Faith (shortly after, it was renamed Enigma Babylon One World Faith) and also was elected to replace the pope who had been raptured.
Calling himself Pontifex Maximus, Supreme Pontiff, and supreme pope, Mathews became the leader of Enigma Babylon, elevating himself, adopting the name Peter the Second, and considering the new faith organization to be at least as important as the Global Community, and himself an equal of Nicolae Carpathia.
Mathews ordered an aircraft roughly twice the size of Carpathia's Condor 216 for his personal use. He named his plane the II One. After the Condor 216 was destroyed, Carpathia appropriated the II One, renamed it the Phoenix 216, and put it into service as the new GC One.
Mathews is later assassinated - stabbed to death with icicles from an ice sculpture - by the ten "kings" that Carpathia had appointed to lead the world under his rule.
