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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
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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
  1. the 1070s CE – 1087 CE Peter Igneus Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and saint

  2. Gap about 301 years with no holder recorded

    1388 CE – 1397 CE Philippe of Alençon French cardinal

  3. Gap about 153 years with no holder recorded

    1550 CE – 1557 CE Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme French cardinal

  4. 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
  5. 27 March 1621 CE – 16 September 1624 CE Ottavio Bandini 17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal

  6. 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

  7. Overlap held at the same time as Antonio Barberini

    1666 CE – 1679 CE Francesco Barberini Italian cardinal (1597-1679)

  8. Gap about 7 years with no holder recorded

    18 March 1686 CE – 19 October 1689 CE Flavio Chigi Italian cardinal and librarian (1631-1693)

  9. Gap about 26 years with no holder recorded

    21 January 1715 CE – 29 January 1719 CE Ferdinando d'Adda Catholic cardinal

  10. Gap about 19 years with no holder recorded

    1738 CE – 1740 CE Pietro Ottoboni Catholic cardinal

  11. Gap about 208 years with no holder recorded

    21 June 1948 CE – 17 November 1966 CE Benedetto Aloisi Masella Catholic cardinal (1879–1970)

  12. 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)

  13. 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-)
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