Office Christianity
cardinal-bishop
Ordines Cardinalium la
Titular cardinal of a suburbicar diocese. most senior of the three classes of catholic Cardinal
- Also called Cardinal bishop, Cardinal Bishop, cardinal
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 13 holders
- 1 overlap
- 10 gaps
- 1 step named in the records
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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the 1070s CE – 1087 CE Peter Igneus Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and saint -
Gap about 301 years with no holder recorded
1388 CE – 1397 CE Philippe of Alençon French cardinal -
Gap about 153 years with no holder recorded
1550 CE – 1557 CE Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme French cardinal -
Gap about 58 years with no holder recorded
16 September 1615 CE – 29 March 1621 CE Francesco Maria del Monte cardinal and patron of music and art in Rome -
27 March 1621 CE – 16 September 1624 CE Ottavio Bandini 17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal -
Gap about 37 years with no holder recorded
21 November 1661 CE – 3 August 1671 CE Antonio Barberini Italian cardinal (1607-1671), nephew of Pope Urban VIII -
Overlap held at the same time as Antonio Barberini
1666 CE – 1679 CE Francesco Barberini Italian cardinal (1597-1679) -
Gap about 7 years with no holder recorded
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18 March 1686 CE – 19 October 1689 CE Flavio Chigi Italian cardinal and librarian (1631-1693) -
Gap about 26 years with no holder recorded
21 January 1715 CE – 29 January 1719 CE Ferdinando d'Adda Catholic cardinal -
Gap about 19 years with no holder recorded
1738 CE – 1740 CE Pietro Ottoboni Catholic cardinal -
Gap about 208 years with no holder recorded
21 June 1948 CE – 17 November 1966 CE Benedetto Aloisi Masella Catholic cardinal (1879–1970) -
Gap about 20 years with no holder recorded
29 September 1986 CE – 13 May 2008 CE Bernardin Gantin Beninese Catholic prelate and Servant of God (1922–2008) -
Gap about 10 years with no holder recorded
from 28 June 2018 CE Pietro Parolin Italian Roman Catholic priest, cardinal and Secretary of State of the Holy See (1955-) Has references
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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