List of cardinals excommunicated by the Catholic Church
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Only a few dozen
papal election. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals
.
Excommunication—literally, the denial of
schisms.[1]
This list includes only cardinals who have been explicitly excommunicated by a
Lateran Council which prohibited election by one-third, and Pope Pius X's Commissum Nobis, which made the exercise of the jus exclusivae by any cardinal punishable by excommunication.[2][3] It also does not include excommunicated quasi-cardinals (cardinals elevated by antipopes) or clerics excommunicated before receiving the red hat
.
Many excommunicated cardinals reconciled (most often with the successor of their excommunicator) and had their offices restored. Some would later be elected pope; for example, Formosus and Sergius III.
9th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Rodoaldo, bishop of Porto | Leo IV | 853 | Nicholas I | 864 | Simony | [4] |
Anastasio il Bibliotecario | Leo IV | 847 | Council of Rome Council of Ravenna Council of Rome |
December 6, 860 May 29, 853 December 8, 853 |
Intrigue against the pope | Reconciled with Nicholas I and Adrian II[4] |
Formoso | Nicholas I | 861 | John VIII | 867 | Various charges | Reconciled with Marinus I; future Pope Formosus; re-excommunicated posthumously by the Cadaver Synod[4] |
Sergio | Stephen V | ante 897 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | Later reconciled; future Pope Sergius III[4] |
Benedetto | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
Martino | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
Giovanni | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
Pasquale | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
Giovanni | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
Leone | Formosus | ante 896 | John IX/Roman Synod | April 898 | Role in the Cadaver Synod | [4] |
11th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Hugh of Remiremont | Leo IX | 1049 | Gregory VII/Roman synod of Letran | March 3, 1078 | Simony | Joined Antipope Clement III[5] |
Richard Milhau | Gregory VII | Ante May 7, 1078 | Victor III/Council of Benevento | August 1087 | Joined allegiance of Antipope Clement III | [6] |
12th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Pietro Pierleoni | Paschal II | ca.1112 | Innocent II/Council of Reims | October 18, 1131 | Election as Antipope Anacletus II | [7] |
Ottaviano de' Monticelli | Innocent II | 1138 | Alexander III | 1162 and 1163 | Election as Antipope Victor IV | [7] |
13th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Riccardo | Innocent IV or Alexander IV | Between 1252 and 1256 | Alexander IV | April 10, 1259 | He participated in the coronation of Manfred Hohenstauf
|
[8][9] |
Giacomo Colonna | Nicholas III | March 12, 1278 | Boniface VIII | May 10, 1297 | He corresponded secretly with Frederick III of Sicily and with Philip IV of France; and refused to surrender to the pope the fortresses that he possessed | Rehabilitated by Benedict XI (1303–1304) and reinstated by Clement V on December 17, 1305[8] |
Pietro Colonna | Nicholas IV | May 16, 1288 | Boniface VIII | May 10, 1297 | He corresponded secretly with Frederick III of Sicily and with Philip IV of France; and refused to surrender to the pope the fortresses that he possessed | Rehabilitated by Benedict XI (1303–1304) and reinstated by Clement V on December 17, 1305[8] |
15th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Louis Aleman | Eugene IV | Eugene IV | December 11, 1440 | Role in the Council of Basel
|
Reconciled with Nicholas V[10] |
16th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Francisco de Borja | Alexander VI | September 28, 1500 | Julius II | October 24, 1511 | Role in the Council of Pisa | Cardinal-nephew; Died before his concillar colleagues reconciled[11] |
Federico di Sanseverino | Innocent VIII | March 9, 1489 | Julius II | October 24, 1511 | Role in the Council of Pisa | Reconciled with Leo X[12] |
Bernardino López de Carvajal | Alexander VI | September 20, 1493 | Julius II | October 24, 1511 | Role in the Council of Pisa | Reconciled with Leo X[12] |
Guillaume Briçonnet
|
Alexander VI | January 16, 1495 | Julius II | October 24, 1511 | Role in the Council of Pisa | Reconciled with Leo X[12] |
René de Prie | Julius II | December 18, 1506 | Julius II | October 24, 1511 | Role in the Council of Pisa | Reconciled with Leo X[12] |
Odet de Coligny | Clement VII | 7 November 1533 | Pius IV | 31 March 1563 | Apostasy (conversion to Calvinism) | Never ordained. Died in exile in England, buried in Canterbury Cathedral |
18th century
Cardinal | Elevating pope | Date of elevation | Excommunicating pope or council | Date of excommunication | Reason | Notes |
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Niccolò Coscia | Benedict XIII | June 11, 1725 | Clement XII | May 9, 1733 | Financial irregularities | Reconciled with Clement XII[13] |
See also
- List of people excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
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