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Office Christianity

Cardinal in pectore

  • Also called 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.

  • 5 holders
  • 2 gaps
  • 1 undated
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.

  1. 15 April 1776 CE – 20 May 1776 CE Luigi Valenti Gonzaga Catholic cardinal (1725-1808) Has references
  2. 23 June 1777 CE – 15 December 1777 CE Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil Italian cardinal (1718–1802) Has references
  3. Gap about 57 years with no holder recorded

    23 June 1834 CE – 11 July 1836 CE Costantino Patrizi Naro Catholic cardinal (1798-1876) Has references
  4. Gap about 17 years with no holder recorded

    19 December 1853 CE – 16 June 1856 CE Camillo di Pietro Catholic cardinal (1806–1884) Has references

No dates recorded 1

  • Dates unrecorded Iuliu Hossu Cardinal, Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop of Cluj-Gherla, Martyr and Blessed (1885-1970)

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.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0

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.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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