Pope Celestine IV

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(GOFREDO CASTIGLIONI.)

A native of Milan, nephew of Urban III, and probably a Cistercian; died 10 November, 1241. He was made cardinal by Gregory IX and succeeded him, 25 October, 1241, at the height of the papal warfare with Emperor Frederick II. He died after a reign of fifteen days.

Sources

LABBE AND COSSART, Coll. Conc., XXIII, 1463; ARGELATI, Biblioth. Mediolanensis (1745), I, 1, 440; POTTHAST, Reg. Rom. Pont. (1874), I, 940.

Source Record

Author: Shahan, Thomas
Publication: The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1908.
Nihil Obstat: Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur: Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.