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Cardinal (Catholic Church)

senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church

31 dated entries naming Cardinal (Catholic Church), drawn from 30 separate years between 891 CE and 2013 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.

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9th century

  • 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 (died 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 (born 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
  • 1423Hélie de Bourdeilles, Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, (died 5 July 1484)source
  • 1449October 29 – Peter of Foix the Younger (Fr.: Pierre de Foix, le jeune), French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (died 1490)source
  • 1480François Guillaume de Castelnau-Clermont-Ludève, diplomat and cardinal (died 1541)source
  • 1481Claude de Longwy de Givry, bishop and Cardinal (died 1561)source
  • 14845 July – Hélie de Bourdeilles, Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and cardinal (born 1423)source
  • 1488Georges II d'Amboise, Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (died 1550)source

16th century

  • 1503Jean Suau, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (died 1566)source
  • 1507June 19 – Jean-François de la Trémoille, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (b.1465)source
  • 1510May 25 – Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal and politician. (born 1460)source
  • 1515November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Roman Catholic Cardinal.source
  • 1533September 24 - Jean d'Orléans-Longueville, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1484).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
  • 1571November 10 – Jérôme Souchier, French Roman Catholic cardinal (b.1508)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

19th century

  • 185029 September – By the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae, Pope Pius IX recreates the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, which had become extinct with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth I, a move held by many Protestants to constitute "papal aggression". Nicholas Wiseman is appointed first Archbishop of Westminster and elevated to Cardinal. He issues a pastoral letter, From Without the Flaminian Gate, and on 21 November is enthroned in St George's Cathedral, Southwark.source
  • 185221 June – The trial of Cardinal John Henry Newman for the defamation of Giacinto Achilli opens in London. Newman is convicted on 25 June.source
  • 1875March 15 – Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.source
  • 1875March 15 – Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the U.S.source
  • 1879May 12 – English Catholic convert John Henry Newman is elevated to Cardinal.source
  • 1886June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinalsource

20th century

  • 1959William Theodore Heard is elevated to cardinal, the first Scot to hold such an office since the Reformation.source

21st century

  • 200623rd - Archbishop Peter Derry is appointed Cardinal by The Vatican at age 88source
  • 2007October 17 – John Njue, the newly appointed Archbishop of Nairobi, is now elevated to cardinal status. He became the second Kenyan cardinal, the other was Maurice Michael Otunga, who died in 2003.source
  • 2013March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.source

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