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Teodolfo Mertel (9
February 1806 – 11 July 1899) was a lawyer, deacon, and
cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church. He was the last
cardinal not to have...
- priests.
Though clerics, they were
inaccurately called "lay cardinals".
Teodolfo Mertel was
among the last of the lay cardinals. When he died in 1899 he...
- priest. Previously, they need only be in
minor orders and not even deacons.
Teodolfo Mertel, who died in 1899, was the last non-priest cardinal. In 1962, Pope...
- not priests, and in all cases,
celibacy was required. With the
death of
Teodolfo Mertel in 1899, this
practice was ended. In 1917, the Code of
Canon Law...
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cardinal who was a
deacon when he died,
having been a
cardinal for 41
years (
Teodolfo Mertel).
There have even been
noble lay men, or men who only possessed...
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Records Preceded by Ferdinand-François-Auguste
Donnet Oldest living cardinal 23
December 1882 – 11
August 1890 Succeeded by
Teodolfo Mertel...
- University. "Mister
Marino Carafa di Belvedere".
Catholic Hierarchy. "
Teodolfo Cardinal Mertel".
Catholic Hierarchy. Code of
Canon Law. 1917.
Canon 232...
- in
Aquiro Prospero Caterini, Protodeacon,
Secretary of the Inquisition.
Teodolfo Mertel,
Prefect of the
Apostolic Signatura; the last
cardinal to not be...
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Archbishop of
Milwaukee (USA)
Vincenzo Macchi Lorenzo Girolamo Mattei Teodolfo Mertel, last lay
cardinal in the
Catholic Church Denzil Meuli,
priest of...
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Enciclopedia Italiana,
Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1930 (in Italian).
Teodolfo Tessari, B****INI, Angelo, in
Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol...
