Francesco Cornaro (cardinal)
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Francesco Cornaro was an Italian
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 cardinal
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A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

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He was born in Venice
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. He was made cardinal on 20 December 1527 by Pope Clement VII in his fourth consistorium. He was installed as Cardinal Priest of San Pancrazio
San Pancrazio
San Pancrazio is a basilica church in Rome, founded in the 6th century. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum....

 on 27 April 1528.

He was appointed Apostolic Administrator
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 (and possibly later bishop) of Brescia in March 1531; he resigned his office in Brescia in March 1532.

In April 1534 he was appointed Cardinal Priest of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th century church in Rome, Italy, devoted to Saint Cecilia, in the Trastevere rione.-History:The first church on this site was founded probably in the 3rd century, by Pope Urban I; it was devoted to the Roman martyr Cecilia, martyred it is said under Marcus...

, in September 1534, Cardinal Priest of San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane
San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane
San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane was a church in the Baths of Diocletian in Rome. It was made a titulus by the Roman synod of 1 March 499. According to a list written by Pietro Mallio during the pontificate of pope Alexander III, it was linked to the basilica church of Santa Maria Maggiore and...

 and in May 1535 Cardinal Priest of Santa Prassede
Santa Prassede
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. In March 1541 he was appointed Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Santa Maria in Trastevere
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. Later in 1541, in November, he was appointed Cardinal Bishop of Albano, and in February 1543 Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina.

Cardinal Cornaro died in Viterbo
Viterbo
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