Francesco Cardinal Sforza †

Deceased

Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Nov 1562		Born
12 Dec 1583	21.0	Elevated to Cardinal
6 Jan 1584	21.1	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
29 Jul 1585	22.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere
5 Dec 1588	26.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
1614²	51.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
13 Nov 1617	55.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Matteo in Merulana
5 Mar 1618	55.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
1 May 1618	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Albano
6 Apr 1620	57.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
27 Sep 1623	60.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
9 Sep 1624	61.8	Died	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Francesco Sforza
(VIAF: 28246616; WikiData: Q1627492)
Francesco Cardinal Sforza (born 6 Nov 1562, died 9 Sep 1624) Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Consistory - 1583: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1585: Participated
Conclave - September 1590: Participated
Conclave - October/December 1590: Participated
Conclave - 1591: Participated
Conclave - 1592: Participated
Conclave - March/April 1605: Participated
Conclave - May 1605: Participated
Conclave - 1621: Participated
Conclave - 1623: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Parma, Diocese of Parma, Italy
Ordained Bishop Pauline Chapel, San Silvestro di Monte Cavallo, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 10.6 years
a bishop for 6.3 years
a cardinal for 40.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul V
(Camillo Borghese †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Scipione Cardinal Caffarelli-Borghese †
Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono
Giulio Cardinal Savelli †
Bishop of Ancona e Numana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul V (1597)
(Camillo Borghese †)
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Stefano de Rosis † (1624)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Parma, Diocese of Parma, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Pauline Chapel, San Silvestro di Monte Cavallo, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 12 Dec 1583
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 47
ob/c2+: Sacres Episcopaux a Rome de 1565 a 1662, Page 64, Number 373
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1618, Number 10
b/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Number 19,261

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