Portrait by an anonymous artist, 16th-century, Vatican Museums
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
9 April 1555
Papacy ended
1 May 1555
Predecessor
Julius III
Successor
Paul IV
Orders
Ordination
1535
Consecration
10 April 1555 by Gian Pietro Carafa
Created cardinal
19 December 1539 by Paul III
Personal details
Born
Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi
6 May 1501
Montefano, Marche, Papal States
Died
1 May 1555(1555-05-01) (aged 53) Rome, Papal States
Previous post(s)
Administrator of Nicastro (1539–1540)
Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1540–1544)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (1540–1555)
Bishop of Gubbio (1544–1555)
Chief of the Vatican Library (1550–1555)
Coat of arms
Other popes named Marcellus
Papal styles of Pope Marcellus II
Reference style
His Holiness
Spoken style
Your Holiness
Religious style
Holy Father
Posthumous style
None
Pope Marcellus and his successor Pope Paul IV depicted by Guillaume Rouillé in 1581 Seconde partie dv promptvaire des medalles
Pope Marcellus II (Italian: Marcello II; 6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 10 April 1555 to his death, 22 days later.
He succeeded Pope Julius III. Before his accession as pope he had been Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He is the most recent pope to choose to retain his birth name as his regnal name upon his accession, and the most recent pope to date with the regnal name "Marcellus".
Cervini was the maternal uncle of Robert Bellarmine. His father, Ricardo Cervini, and Pope Clement VII were personal friends. Cervini served in the household of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. When Farnese became Pope Paul III, Cervini served as his secretary and was employed on a number of diplomatic missions. On 10 April, 1555, he was elected to succeed Pope Julius III. He died of a stroke twenty-two days later.
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physician to the House of Farnese and three successive popes, Pope Julius III, PopeMarcellusII and Pope Paul IV. Salviani was born in Città di Castello. He...
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months. He met with Loyola and probably attended the election of PopeMarcellusII. Bernardo was highly valued, and gave great hope to the Papacy about...
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del Monte (the future Pope Julius III), Marcello Cervini (the future PopeMarcellusII), and Gian Pietro Carafa (the future Pope Paul IV). Among those...
collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to a beating...
gather the wood to burn him". He was a surprise choice as pope to succeed PopeMarcellusII (1555); his severe and unbending character combined with his...
absent, popes tend to choose papal names different from their baptismal names; the last pope to reign under his baptismal name was PopeMarcellusII (1555)...
"almost 200 corrections to its existing biographies of the popes, from St Peter to John Paul II". The corrections concerned dates, especially in the first...
one saint. Pope Paul III canonized two saints. Pope Julius III did not canonize any saints. PopeMarcellusII did not canonize any saints. Pope Paul IV did...
1978, when Pope John Paul II's regnal name was announced simply as Ioannis Pauli without the numeral, since his immediate predecessor was Pope John Paul...
the placing of the papal tiara on a newly elected pope. The first recorded papal coronation was of Pope Nicholas I in 858. The most recent was the 1963...
The last pope to use his baptismal name was PopeMarcellusII in 1555, a choice that was even then quite exceptional. The names chosen by popes are not...
death of PopeMarcellusII (whose reign had only lasted from 9 April to 1 May that year) and elected Pope Paul IV as his successor. PopeMarcellusII was elected...
unanimously chosen as the successor to Pope Julius III, who died on March 23, and takes the name of PopeMarcellusII as the 222nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic...
predecessors Pope Pius IV and Pope Paul IV and in the articles on Pope Julius III, Pope Paul III, Pope Clement VII, Pope Adrian VI, Pope Leo X, Pope Julius II, Pope...
12 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577) May 6 – PopeMarcellusII (d. 1555) May 17 – Stanisław of Masovia, Polish duke (d. 1524) July...
obtained from PopeMarcellusII an appointment as canon of Abbey Hill of Piedmont. In 1555 he entered the papal court, opposing the election of Pope Paul IV...
The last pope to use his baptismal name was MarcellusII in 1555, a choice that was even then quite exceptional. Names are freely chosen by popes, and not...
examination, Vergerio was released, Cardinal Marcello Cervini, later PopeMarcellusII, took advantage of the fact that Vergerio was not yet formally absolved...
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