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| | Pope Innocent X Biography |
 | | Innocent X, Giovanni Battista Pamphili (May 6, 1574 - January 5, 1655), Pope from 1644 to 1655, was born in Rome in 1574, attained the dignity of cardinal in 1629. |
 | | The conclave for the election of a successor to Urban VIII was long and stormy, from August 9 to September 15, 1644. |
 | | Innocent confiscated their property, and on February 19, 1646, issued a Bull ordaining that all cardinals who might leave the Papal States for six months without express papal permission, should be deprived of their benefices and eventually of their cardinalate itself. |
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