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Office Christianity

Major Penitentiary

Director

  • Dated from 12th century CE
  • Also called Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary

Who held it, in order

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

  • 5 holders
  • 2 gaps
  • 2 undated
  1. 1476 CE – 1503 CE Julius II pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
  2. Gap about 107 years with no holder recorded

    1610 CE – 1633 CE Scipione Borghese 17th-century Catholic cardinal (1576-1633)
  3. Gap about 251 years with no holder recorded

    12 February 1884 CE – 14 July 1896 CE Raffaele Monaco La Valletta Catholic cardinal (1827-1896)

No dates recorded 2

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