A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the Pope's legate.
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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 of the Catholic Church, or representatives of the state or monarchy. He is empowered on matters of Catholic faith and for the settlement of ecclesiastical matters.
The legate is appointed directly by the Pope—the Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. Hence a legate is usually sent to a government, a sovereign or to a large body of believers (such as a national church) or to take charge of a major religious effort, such as an ecumenical council, a crusade to the Holy Land, or even against a heresy such as the Cathars.
The term legation is applied both to a legate's mandate and to the territory concerned (such as a state, or an ecclesiastical province). The relevant adjective is legatine.
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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...
York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papallegate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence...
founded by St. Francis of Assisi and received oral papal approval by Innocent III in 1209 and formal papal confirmation by Honorius III in 1223. Today the...
the seventeenth abbot of Cîteaux (until 1212). In 1204, he was named a papallegate and inquisitor and was sent by Pope Innocent III with Peter of Castelnau...
Roman Curia. Giuliano was again named PapalLegate to France on 28 April 1480, and left Rome on 9 June. As Legate, his mission was threefold: to make peace...
Wrocław for confessing Hussites, but the sentence was issued by the papallegate Fernando de Palacios and the Czech-German king Sigismund of Luxembourg...
the Papacy, though it quickly fell out of Papal control. After bickering between laymen and the papallegate led to the collapse of the Fifth Crusade,...
to act against the Cathars. In 1208, Pierre de Castelnau, Innocent's papallegate, was murdered while returning to Rome after excommunicating Count Raymond...
order in the dissolving Papal States, resulting in the military progress of Cardinal Albornoz, who was appointed papallegate, and his condottieri heading...
Bicchieri (c. 1150 – 1227) was an Italian diplomat, papal official and cardinal. He was the papallegate in England from 1216 to 1218 and took a prominent...
appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Venice and served as the Papallegate to Flanders and Cologne. He was elevated to cardinalate in 1583 by Pope...
throne. William knighted the boy, and Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, the papallegate to England, then oversaw his coronation at Gloucester Cathedral on 28...
Florence's ambassador to the pope, Bishop of Pistoia, Archbishop of Florence, Papallegate to France, and as the cardinal Prefect for the Congregation of Bishops...
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Catholic Church, and has also served as the head of state or sovereign of the Papal States and later the Vatican City State since the eighth century. From a...
thereafter by a papallegate, generally belonging to high ecclesiastical hierarchy. Following the annexation of the duchy by the Papal States, the rich...
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young Cardinal de Borja (or Borgia in Italian) to go to Ancona as a Papallegate to quell a revolt. Borgia was successful in his mission, and his uncle...
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under the command of General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the Papal Army, and occupied Ancona and Loreto. Pope Pius VI sued for peace, which...
political intrigues in Rome and the power of Berengar II, John sent papallegates in 960 to King Otto I of Germany, who had previously been granted the...
prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papallegate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216, Louis was proclaimed "King of England"...
The election took place on 24 December; Stephen was present with the papallegate, Alberic of Ostia, and a small group of barons and bishops, but Henry...
October 18. Simeon II, the exiled Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the papallegate, Adhemar of Le Puy, propagate the crusade in a common letter circulated...
he was made cardinal. He was appointed Bishop of Ostia, and served as papallegate first to Hungary, and then to France. He was with Pope Boniface VIII...
second session was held in Memnon's episcopal residence. Philip, as papallegate, opened the proceedings by commenting that the present question regarding...
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