Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Ottaviano Cardinal de' Medici, Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina, Archbishop of Florence, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars. Elected Bishop of Rome on 1 April 1605 in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, taking the name Leo XI, and was crowned on 10 April. Pope Leo XI died on 27 April 1605 in Rome, in the 1st year of his pontificate. He was buried on 30 April in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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