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cardinal priest

presbyter cardinalis la

  • Also called Cardinal-priest, cardinal-priest, Cardinal priest
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A seat,
and those
who held it.

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External Ornaments of a Cardinal (not a bishop)
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Succession in office

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Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 61 holders
  • 437 overlapping pairs
  • 7 undated
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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. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

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.

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  1. 1059 CE – 1086 CE Victor III head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087
  2. 18 September 1227 CE – 25 June 1243 CE Innocent IV pope of the Catholic Church from 1243 to 1254 Has references
  3. from 18 December 1338 CE Clement VI Pope of the Catholic Church and the fourth Avignon Pope (1342–1352) Has references
  4. 8 January 1440 CE – September 1446 CE Juan de Torquemada spansich Dominican and cardinal (1388-1468)
  5. 12 July 1444 CE – 8 April 1455 CE Callixtus III pope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family
  6. September 1446 CE – 8 April 1460 CE Juan de Torquemada spansich Dominican and cardinal (1388-1468)
  7. 16 December 1446 CE – 6 March 1447 CE Nicholas V pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455 Has references
  8. 16 June 1451 CE – 30 August 1464 CE Paul II pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
  9. 1 January 1459 CE – 22 January 1483 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal
  10. 17 September 1498 CE – 25 May 1510 CE Georges d'Amboise Cardinal and minister of state (1460-1510)
  11. 1 July 1517 CE – 4 August 1522 CE Adrian VI pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523) Has references
  12. 26 June 1517 CE – 6 July 1517 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
  13. 6 July 1517 CE – 19 November 1523 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
  14. from 31 January 1560 CE Charles Borromeo Italian Catholic prelate (1538–1584) Has references
  15. 15 January 1561 CE – 9 May 1590 CE Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)
  16. from 19 November 1576 CE Andrew of Austria cardinal, bishop of Constance and Brixen (1558-1600) Has references
  17. 5 June 1596 CE – 8 January 1599 CE Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541-1609) Cardinal, Archbishop of Seville and Spanish Grand Inquisitor Has references
  18. 26 March 1618 CE – 17 May 1625 CE Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma Spanish politician (1553-1625) Has references
  19. from 16 September 1748 CE Henry Benedict Stuart Catholic cardinal Has references
  20. from 12 February 1759 CE Henry Benedict Stuart Catholic cardinal Has references
  21. from 24 January 1763 CE Henry Benedict Stuart Catholic cardinal Has references
  22. from 30 March 1778 CE Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil Italian cardinal (1718–1802) Has references
  23. 30 March 1778 CE – 29 November 1790 CE Luigi Valenti Gonzaga Catholic cardinal (1725-1808) Has references
  24. from 20 September 1784 CE Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil Italian cardinal (1718–1802) Has references
  25. 29 November 1790 CE – 1 June 1795 CE Luigi Valenti Gonzaga Catholic cardinal (1725-1808) Has references
  26. from 20 October 1800 CE Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, 14th Count of Chinchón Spanish cardinal (1777-1823) Has references
  27. 21 November 1836 CE – 20 April 1849 CE Costantino Patrizi Naro Catholic cardinal (1798-1876) Has references
  28. 14 December 1840 CE – 7 February 1878 CE Pius IX Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878 Has references
  29. 15 April 1859 CE – 20 September 1867 CE Camillo di Pietro Catholic cardinal (1806–1884) Has references
  30. 16 March 1868 CE – 24 March 1884 CE Raffaele Monaco La Valletta Catholic cardinal (1827-1896) Has references
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  1. 25 June 1877 CE – 24 March 1884 CE Lucido Parocchi Catholic cardinal (1833–1903) Has references
  2. 24 March 1884 CE – 24 May 1889 CE Lucido Parocchi Catholic cardinal (1833–1903) Has references
  3. from 2 December 1895 CE Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás Spanish author (1833-1909)
  4. from 3 December 1896 CE Francesco Satolli Roman Catholic cardinal (1839–1910) Has references
  5. 14 December 1899 CE – 15 January 1903 CE Lucido Parocchi Catholic cardinal (1833–1903) Has references
  6. 12 November 1903 CE – 26 February 1930 CE Rafael Merry del Val Spanish cardinal and diplomat. (1865–1930)
  7. 30 November 1911 CE – 6 December 1915 CE Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte Catholic cardinal (1851–1948) Has references
  8. from 24 March 1924 CE George Mundelein Catholic cardinal (1872-1939) Has references
  9. 16 December 1937 CE – 21 June 1948 CE Giuseppe Pizzardo Catholic cardinal (1877-1970) Has references
  10. 22 February 1946 CE – 22 October 1970 CE Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian Armenian Cardinal Patriarch and Servant of God (1895–1971) Has references
  11. 29 October 1953 CE – 28 October 1958 CE John XXIII priest, bishop, cardinal, pope Has references
  12. Coat of arms of Luigi Traglia 1st 28 March 1960 CE – 28 April 1969 CE Luigi Traglia Catholic cardinal (1895–1977) Has references
  13. from 19 March 1962 CE Ildebrando Antoniutti Catholic cardinal (1898-1974) Has references
  14. 22 February 1965 CE – 28 July 1968 CE Ángel Herrera Oria spanish journalist, jurist, politician, and cardinal (1886–1968) Has references
  15. 26 June 1967 CE – 12 December 1974 CE Antonio Samorè Catholic cardinal and apostolic nuncio (1905–1983)
  16. Coat of arms of Luigi Traglia 28 April 1969 CE – 15 March 1972 CE Luigi Traglia Catholic cardinal (1895–1977) Has references
  17. 28 April 1969 CE – 28 November 1994 CE Vicente Enrique y Tarancón Catholic cardinal (1907-1994) Has references
  18. 27 June 1977 CE – 5 April 1993 CE Benedict XVI 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013) Has references
  19. from 28 June 1988 CE Eduardo Martínez Somalo cardinal of the Catholic Church (1927-2021)
  20. 28 June 1991 CE – 27 May 2022 CE Angelo Sodano cardinal of the Catholic Church Has references
  21. 21 February 2001 CE – 13 March 2013 CE Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025) Has references
  22. 21 October 2003 CE – 10 May 2008 CE Tarcisio Bertone cardinal of the Catholic Church Has references
  23. 22 February 2014 CE – 28 June 2018 CE Pietro Parolin Italian Roman Catholic priest, cardinal and Secretary of State of the Holy See (1955-) Has references
  24. from 28 November 2020 CE Wilton Daniel Gregory American Cardinal Has references

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