A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the Pope to foreign nations, to some other part...

York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence...

left office and his replacement had not yet assumed it. A legate a latere is a temporary papal representative or a representative for a special purpose...

Assisi) a generic synonym for any (usually diplomatic) papal legate Pontifical Delegate Legate (disambiguation) Portals: Catholicism Vatican City v t...

such as an ambassador, envoy, or delegate. Papal legate, a delegate messenger from the Holy See Legate (Star Trek), a rank in the Cardassian military...

Bicchieri (c. 1150 – 1227) was an Italian diplomat, papal official and cardinal. He was the papal legate in England from 1216 to 1218 and took a prominent...

appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Venice and served as the Papal legate to Flanders and Cologne. He was elevated to cardinalate in 1583 by Pope...

order in the dissolving Papal States, resulting in the military progress of Cardinal Albornoz, who was appointed papal legate, and his condottieri heading...

the seventeenth abbot of Cîteaux (until 1212). In 1204, he was named a papal legate and inquisitor and was sent by Pope Innocent III with Peter of Castelnau...

was a Roman ecclesiastical politician, papal legate to England and bishop of Norwich. Pandulf was born in the Papal States, and first came to England in...

century until 1870, the pope was the sovereign or head of state of the Papal States, and since 1929 of the much smaller Vatican City state. The reigning...

to act against the Cathars. In 1208, Pierre de Castelnau, Innocent's papal legate, was murdered while returning to Rome after excommunicating Count Raymond...

throne. William knighted the boy, and Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, the papal legate to England, then oversaw his coronation at Gloucester Cathedral on 28...

Roman Curia. Giuliano was again named Papal Legate to France on 28 April 1480, and left Rome on 9 June. As Legate, his mission was threefold: to make peace...

This is a list of papal legates sent by the Holy See to England. The legature was suppressed under Henry VIII, and restored under his daughter Mary I...

Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi, Papal Legate of Forlì Giuseppe Ugolini, Papal Legate of Ferrara Gabriele della Genga Sermattei, Papal Legate of Urbino e Pesaro Chiarissimo...

Niccolò de Romanis (died 1218) was an Italian cardinal and Papal legate. He was Bishop of Frascati from either 1204 or 1205 and Grand penitentiary. He...

thereafter by a papal legate, generally belonging to high ecclesiastical hierarchy. Following the annexation of the duchy by the Papal States, the rich...

highest nobility in Europe. He became archbishop of Vienne and served as papal legate to France. He attended the Lateran Synod of 1112. He was elected pope...

young Cardinal de Borja (or Borgia in Italian) to go to Ancona as a Papal legate to quell a revolt. Borgia was successful in his mission, and his uncle...

to the church, in exchange for the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Papal Legate supporting his succession to the throne. There was the slight problem...

Florence's ambassador to the pope, Bishop of Pistoia, Archbishop of Florence, Papal legate to France, and as the cardinal Prefect for the Congregation of Bishops...

the Papacy, though it quickly fell out of Papal control. After bickering between laymen and the papal legate led to the collapse of the Fifth Crusade,...

that he wanted to disinherit his grandson. Leo of Cilicia persuaded the papal legate, Conrad of Wittelsbach, Archbishop of Mainz, to visit Antioch. On the...

two papal legates, Peter of Castelnau and Raoul. When, however, these missionaries were ridiculed and despised by the Albigenses, and the papal legate Castelnau...

was too heavy a disciplinarian, and in order to make use of him as a papal legate as well as to pacify his monks, he was appointed Bishop of Albano some...

Fall of 1182, he was in France, serving as papal legate against the Albigensian heretics. In 1180, the legate Cardinal Henry of Marcy presided over a synod...

wished to do so". The legates sent from Rome and France received little support as they were considered foreign reformers. Papal legate Pierre de Castelnau...

1278. However, Ladislaus could not restore royal power in Hungary. A papal legate, Philip, bishop of Fermo, came to Hungary to help Ladislaus consolidate...

Innocent III proclaimed it as directly subject to the Holy See. The papal legate William of Modena divided Terra Mariana into feudal principalities: the...