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Office Christianity

Cardinal in pectore

  • Also called Cardinal
Who held it Compare

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 5 holders
  • 2 gaps
  • 1 undated
  1. 15 April 1776 CE – 20 May 1776 CE Luigi Valenti Gonzaga Catholic cardinal (1725-1808)
  2. 23 June 1777 CE – 15 December 1777 CE Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil Italian cardinal (1718–1802)

  3. Gap about 57 years with no holder recorded

    23 June 1834 CE – 11 July 1836 CE Costantino Patrizi Naro Catholic cardinal (1798-1876)

  4. Gap about 17 years with no holder recorded

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

No dates recorded 1

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