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Basilios Bessarion

Basilius Bessario la

Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)

  • Dated 2 January 1403 CE – 18 November 1472 CE
  • Also called Nicolaus Bessarion, Basilius Bessarion, Basileios Bessarion

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Belonged to

Offices held 12

  1. from 11 November 1437 CE Catholic archbishop Has references
  2. 1437 CE – 1440 CE metropolitan Has references
  3. Template-Cardinal
    from 18 December 1439 CE cardinal Has references
  4. 8 January 1440 CE – 5 March 1449 CE Cardinal-priest Ss. XII Apostoli Succeeded Alexander V
  5. 1440 CE – 18 November 1472 CE titular archbishop
  6. 23 April 1449 CE – 14 October 1468 CE Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
  7. 1455 CE – 1472 CE abbot
  8. 26 July 1458 CE – 18 May 1462 CE apostolic administrator Has references
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  1. 1463 CE – 1472 CE Dean of the College of Cardinals Succeeded by Guillaume d'Estouteville
  2. 1 April 1463 CE – 18 November 1472 CE Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
  3. 7 January 1467 CE – 11 June 1468 CE Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals Succeeded by Guillaume d'Estouteville
  4. 14 October 1468 CE – 18 November 1472 CE Cardinal Bishop of Sabina (Vescovio) Succeeded Juan de Torquemada

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

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Basilios Bessarion Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)
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