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Office Christianity

Major Penitentiary

Director

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

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
  • 2 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. 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) Has references

No dates recorded 2

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.

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

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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