Was Cesare bishop or the "administrator" of the see to get its revenues?
Tom Izbicki

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On 07/04/2011 01:12, Paul Chandler wrote:
>
> John asks if Cesare Borgia was ever ordained. He was appointed archbishop of
> Valencia when his father was elected pope in 1492 (he was 17, and had
> previously been bishop of Pamplona for a year). According to David Cheney's
> Catholic Hierarchy website -- whose accuracy I can't vouch for but have no
> reason to doubt -- he was ordained priest when he was 8<
> http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdeborjac.html>.

I have every reason to doubt it - for a start, the whole entry is
demonstrably inaccurate. Being ordained a priest at the age of 8 is just
not credible. The old Catholic Encyclopedia says that Cesare never "took
Orders". [It is not explained exactly what is meant by that, which in
any case is stated during an attempted whitewash of Alexander VI.]

John Briggs

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