The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Early lists of cardinals

The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
Early lists of cardinals

First constitution of Leo VIII (963)

PRIMÆ CONSTITVTIONI LEONIS
Pseudopontificas subscripsere Cardinales hi numirum

GEORGIVS      Presbyter Card. tit. ad Vincula.
BENEDICTVS   Presbyter Card. tit. S. Maria ad Præsepe.
LEO                  Presbyter Card. tit. S. Crucis in Ierusalem.
IANVARIVS       Cardinalis titulo Sanctæ Cæciliæ.
ANDREAS         Archipresbyter Patriarchatus Lateranensis.
IVLIANVS          Presbyter Cardinalis.
FAVSTINVS      Card. titulo sancti Petri.

Taken from Alfonso Chacón, Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificum Romanorum : et S.R.E. Cardinalium ab initio nascentis Ecclesiae usque ad Clementem IX P. O. M. Alphonsi Ciaconii Ord. Praed. & aliorum opera descriptæ : cum uberrimis notis. Ab Augustino Oldoino, Soc. Jesu recognitae, et ad quatuor tomos ingenti ubique rerum accessione productae. Additis Pontificum recentiorum imaginibus, & Cardinalium insignibus, plurimisque aeneis figuris, cum indicibus locupletissimis. Romæ : P. et A. De Rubeis, 1677, I, col. 724.

Additional sources and notes: Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa (Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1792), I, pt. 1, 81, which indicates that this bull is reputed by many as false and adds that because Chacón considers the subscribers of the document cardinals and not pseudocardinals, it is worth registering it; Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni (103 vols. in 53. Venezia : Tipografia Emiliana, 1840-1861), XXX, 269 (Giorgio); XXXI, 154 (Giuliano); XXXVIII, 84 (Leone), says that the bull was signed in 963. Neiher Cardella nor Chacón give a date for the document. Regesta pontificum Romanorum ab conditio Ecclesia. Ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII (Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956. 2 v. Reprint. Originally published : Lipsiae : Veit et comp., 1885-1888. Original t.p. included : Regesta pontificum Romanorum ab condita ecclesia : ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII. Editionem secundam correctam et auctam edidit Philippus Jaffè ; auspiciis Gulielmi Wattenbach; curaverunt S. Loewenfeld, F. Kaltenbrunner, P. Ewald), I, 467, no. 3700, indicates that the first bull issued by Leo VIII was dated December 9, 963; the bull was in favor of the archdiocese of Salzburg; and its title was "Convenit apostolic moderamine".

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