{"slug": "college-of-cardinals", "label": "College of Cardinals", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Cardinals", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q852242", "qid": "Q852242", "description": "body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1059, 1669], "span_label": ["1059 CE", "1669 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-eugene-iv", "label": "Pope Eugene IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-sixtus-v", "label": "Pope Sixtus V", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1059, "year_label": "1059 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Nicholas II, with the agreement of the Lateran Council, issues the papal bull In nomine Domini, making the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the papal conclave for the election of popes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271111243#Religion", "title": "1059", "revid": 1271111243, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1274, "year_label": "1274 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Gregory X decrees that conclaves (gatherings of the College of Cardinals where the elections of a bishop of Rome are convened) should be used for papal elections, reforming the electoral process which had taken over 3 years to elect him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356688810#Religion", "title": "1274", "revid": 1356688810, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1408, "year_label": "1408 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – From Livorno, a group of 13 Roman Catholic Cardinals allied with Pope Gregory begins sending encyclical letters \"to the princes and prelates of the Christian world\" summoning them to the Council of Pisa, to take place on March 25, 1409, in order to end the Western Schism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360565942#July–December", "title": "1408", "revid": 1360565942, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1439, "year_label": "1439 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – Pope Eugene IV designates nine archbishops and six bishops to join the College of Cardinals and one cardinal and one priest, for 17 appointments in all.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373513363#October–December", "title": "1439", "revid": 1373513363, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1447, "year_label": "1447 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – The papal conclave opens at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome with 18 of the 24 living members of the College of Cardinals arriving to select a new Pope With 12 votes necessary for the require two-thirds needed for an election, Cardinal Prospero Colonna receives 10 and Cardinal Domenico Capranica gets 8.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359486325#January–March", "title": "1447", "revid": 1359486325, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Pope Gregory XIV, who had succeeded Pope Urban VII in December, appoints Cardinal Marco Antonio Colonna and six other cardinals to a commission to revise the Sixtine Vulgate Latin translation of the Bible, published in 1590 under the editorship of Pope Sixtus V, to which the College of Cardinals has taken exception. The revision of the revision, dubbed the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, will be completed in 1592 and be the official version used by the Catholic Church until 1979.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358075583#January–March", "title": "1591", "revid": 1358075583, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 21", "text": "December 21 – A papal conclave that will last for four months begins in Rome to select a successor to Pope Clement IX, who had died 12 days earlier. At the opening, 54 of the 70 members of the College of Cardinals are present. At least 21 Cardinals are considered for the papacy before Emilio Altieri is selected on April 29 to become Pope Clement X.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366419040#October–December", "title": "1669", "revid": 1366419040, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}