Pope Honorius II (r. 1124-30) created 27 cardinals in six consistories held throughout his pontificate. [1] This included his successors Anastasius IV and Celestine II both in 1127.
Pope Honorius II (r. 1124-30) created 27 cardinals in six consistories held throughout his pontificate. [1] This included his successors Anastasius IV and Celestine II both in 1127.
The Apostolic Penitentiary, formerly called the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary, is a dicastery of the Roman Curia and is one of the three ordinary tribunals of the Apostolic See. The Apostolic Penitentiary is chiefly a tribunal of mercy, responsible for issues relating to the forgiveness of sins in the Catholic Church.
The Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto is a suburbicarian see of the Holy Roman Church and a diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy in the Roman province of the Pope.
The diocese of Cortona was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in central Italy, which existed from 1325 to 1986. It was immediately subject to the Holy See.
Pseudocardinals or Quasi-cardinals were the uncanonical Cardinals created by six of the Antipopes, in or rival to Rome, including two of Avignon Papacy and one of Pisa, as princes of their schismatic Catholic church.
The 1130 papal election was convoked after the death of Pope Honorius II and resulted in a double election. Part of the cardinals, led by Cardinal-Chancellor Aymeric de la Chatre, elected Gregorio Papareschi as Pope Innocent II, but the rest of them refused to recognize him and elected Cardinal Pietro Pierleoni, who took the name of Anacletus II. Although Anacletus had the support of the majority of the cardinals, the Catholic Church considers Innocent II as the legitimate Pope, and Anacletus II as Antipope.
Pope Eugene III (1145–1153) created sixteen cardinals in nine consistories:
Pope Lucius II (1144–1145) created eleven cardinals in two consistories.
The 1118 papal election saw the election of Pope Gelasius II as the successor of Pope Paschal II who died January 21, 1118, in Rome after an over 18-year pontificate. Gelasius died after only one year in the papacy.
Pope Clement V created 24 cardinals in three consistories held during his pontificate. He also named his future successor Pope John XXII as a cardinal in 1312.
Pope Gregory XI created 21 cardinals in two consistories held during his pontificate. Two of the cardinals that he named became antipopes Clement VII and Benedict XIII.
Pope Callixtus II created 35 cardinals in eight consistories held throughout his pontificate. This included one future successor and two future antipopes.
Pope Gregory IX created sixteen cardinals in five consistories that he held throughout his pontificate. This included three future successors in the first allocation in 1227.
Pope Paschal II created 92 cardinals in fifteen consistories held throughout his pontificate. This included the future Antipope Anacletus II.
Pope Urban II created 71 cardinals in ten consistories that he held throughout his pontificate. He elevated his two successors Gelasius II and Innocent II as cardinals in 1088 and Honorius II in 1099.
Pope Innocent II created 76 cardinals in twelve consistories held throughout his pontificate. The pope created as cardinals his future successor Lucius III and the antipope Victor IV.
Pope Adrian IV created 23 cardinals in three consistories held during his pontificate. This included his future successor Pope Gregory VIII in 1155.
Pope Alexander III created 68 cardinals in fifteen consistories he held throughout his pontificate. This included the elevation of his two future successors Urban III and Clement III and he also elevated a cardinal whom he later named as a saint.
Pope Clement III created 30 cardinals in three consistories held during his pontificate; this included the elevation of his future successor Pope Innocent III in 1190.
Pope Innocent III created 41 cardinals in ten consistories that he conducted throughout his pontificate. This included - in his first allocation in late 1198 - a future successor.
Pope Innocent IV created fifteen cardinals in two consistories he held during his pontificate; this included his future successors Nicholas III in 1244 and Adrian V in 1251.
