• In pectore (Latin for "in the breast/heart") is a term used in the Catholic Church for an action, decision, or document which is meant to be kept secret...
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    et reservati in pectore. A cardinal named in pectore is known only to the pope. In the modern era, popes have named cardinals in pectore to protect them...
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    Barnabites (category 1530 establishments in Europe)
    King Charles Emmanuel IV, and then, in 1768, of Charles Emmanuel's sons, was named a cardinal in secret (in pectore) on 23 June 1777, and announced publicly...
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    Angelo Maria Querini (category Articles lacking in-text citations from August 2018)
    Benedict XIII created him Cardinal in pectore in 1726; he was installed as Cardinal and bishop of Brescia a year later. In 1730, he became the head librarian...
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    created in pectore and only announced at a later consistory. Those announced at his first consistory included his brother Giuseppe Pecci. In 1893, he...
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    XII in 1730. His uncle then named him a cardinal deacon in pectore at the consistory of 14 August 1730. His creation as cardinal was made public in December...
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    the Henry Benedict Stuart (1747). The pope also reserved one cardinal in pectore and revealed that name at a later time, therefore validating the creation...
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    happened frequently at other times. Cardinals may be created in pectore ('in the breast'), in which case their identities are not publicly revealed by the...
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    during the papal conclave of 1644. He was created Cardinal in pectore in 1627 and published in 1629. The 1644 conclave for the election of a successor to...
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    transferred from the deaconry of Sant'Eugenio Originally created a cardinal in pectore on 21 February 1998 Elevated pro hac vice to a title on 3 May 2021 Elevated...
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    "the Bride of Christ." Much later (in 1535) the Venetian nobleman Soriano recorded that Alessandro was called cardinale Fregnese (Cardinal Pussy, or Cardinal...
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    2005 papal conclave (category 2005 in Christianity)
    (in pectore) in 2003, but never revealed that person's identity. Some reports said Cardinal Sin had hoped for medical clearance to travel. He died in June...
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    Štěpán Trochta (category Roman Catholic bishops in Czechoslovakia)
    in pectore on 28 April 1969 and the appointment was made public in on 5 March 1973; he was elevated as the Cardinal Priest of San Giovanni Bosco in Via...
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    Pope Paul VI (category Participants in the Second Vatican Council)
    František Tomášek and Joseph-Marie Trịnh Như Khuê "in pectore" in 1976, only announcing the former in 1977 and the latter at the 1976 consistory itself...
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    apostolica | Ioannes Paulus II". www.vatican.va. 29 December 1988. "Imo ex pectore - Littera apostolica | Ioannes Paulus II - Vatican.va". www.vatican.va...
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    A crown-cardinal (Italian: cardinale della corona) was a cardinal protector of a Roman Catholic nation, nominated or funded by a Catholic monarch to serve...
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    Melchior de Polignac (category 17th-century writers in Latin)
    three years in Rome. In 1712, he was created a Cardinal Deacon by Pope Clement XI (Altieri) on 18 May 1712 but the nomination was made in pectore, that is...
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    on 15 February 1838. Pope Gregory XVI secretly (in pectore) elevated him to the College of Cardinals in the consistory of the following 13 September, eventually...
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    was on the same day appointed Latin Patriarch of Antioch and Cardinal in pectore. Cesare Monti, who at the time had received only the clerical tonsure...
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    in his earlier scholarly career, he did not condone its most radical outcomes either. Pope Alexander VII created Pallavicino cardinal in pectore in his...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ancona–Osimo (category Roman Catholic dioceses in le Marche)
    by Pope Clement XI (Albani). On 18 May 1712, he was named a cardinal in pectore (secretly), which was publicly disclosed on 26 September; on 30 January...
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    and reburial. On 23 February 1801 he was named a cardinal (secretly, in pectore), and the appointment was made public on 29 March 1802. He was appointed...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fermo (category Roman Catholic dioceses in le Marche)
    Papal Household (from 28 August 1691). He was named a cardinal in secret (in pectore) on 12 December 1695, which was not made public until 11 November...
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