Skip to content
Marie-Lan Nguyen  · Public domain

Office Christianity

cardinal protodeacon

The most senior Catholic Cardinal Deacon

Who held it Compare

Who held it, in order

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

  • 3 holders
  • 2 gaps
  1. 24 March 1463 CE – 30 August 1471 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)

  2. Gap about 32 years with no holder recorded

    29 November 1503 CE – 9 March 1513 CE Leo X pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)

  3. Gap about 37 years with no holder recorded

    28 February 1550 CE – 14 April 1550 CE Innocenzo Cybo Italian Catholic cardinal and archbishop
Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

More from Christianity

Its branches, councils, saints, offices and buildings — and where they stopped recognising each other.

Open the collection