senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church
10 dated entries naming Cardinal (Catholic Church), drawn from 10 separate years between 891 CE and 1735 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
891September 14 – Pope Stephen V dies after a 6-year reign. He is succeeded by Formosus, former cardinal bishop of Portus, as the 111th pope of the Catholic Church.source
11th century
1046Leo of Ostia ("Marsicanus"), Italian cardinal (d. 1115)source
13th century
1239August – Thomas of Capua, Italian prelate, cardinal and diplomatsource
14th century
1316August 7 – After an interregnum (sede vacante) of two years, due to disagreements between the cardinals, French cardinal Jacques Duèze, Bishop of Avignon, is elected as successor to Pope Clement V, who died in 1314.source
1376April 6 – Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (b. 1310)source
15th century
1405August 29 – Cardinal Angelo Acciaioli is appointed by Pope Innocent VII to be the Grand Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, filling a vacancy that has existed since the death of Francesco Moricotti Prignani in 1394.source
16th century
1515November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Roman Catholic Cardinal.source
1556March 22 – Reginald Pole, a Roman Catholic Cardinal, is appointed by Queen Mary of England as the new Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canterbury.source
17th century
1622September 5 – Armand Jean du Plessis becomes Cardinal Richelieu.source
18th century
1735December 19 – At the age of 8 years old, Prince Luis of Spain becomes the youngest Roman Catholic Cardinal in history, after being named by Pope Clement XII.source