{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop}} {{one source|date=July 2018}}
thumb|right|250px|''Cardinal Marco Corner'' thumb|right|250px|Coat of arms of Cardinal Marco Cornaro '''Marco Cornaro''' (1482 – 24 July 1524), also known as '''Cardinal Cornaro''' and '''Cardinal Cornelius''', was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.
==Biography==
A member of the House of Cornaro, Marco Cornaro was born in Venice in 1482, the son of Giorgio Cornaro and Elisabetta Morosini.<ref name=Dictionary>{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title= CORNARO, Marco (1482-1524)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1500-ii.htm#Cornaro|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |accessdate=|publisher=Florida International University|oclc=53276621}}</ref> He was the nephew of Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus.<ref name=Dictionary /> He was ordained a priest by Pope Clement VII.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Marco ''Cardinal'' Cornaro|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcrnrm.html |accessdate=February 14, 2019}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> His older brother Francesco Cornaro was also a cardinal.<ref name=Dictionary /> Early in his life, Marco Cornaro was a protonotary apostolic.<ref name=Dictionary />
Pope Alexander VI made Cornaro a cardinal deacon in the consistory of 28 September 1500.<ref name=Dictionary /> He received the deaconry of Santa Maria in Campitelli on 5 October 1500.<ref name=Dictionary />
He arrived in Rome on 1 September 1503 and then participated in both the papal conclave of September 1503 that elected Pope Pius III, and the papal conclave of October 1503 that elected Pope Julius II.<ref name=Dictionary />
On 29 November 1503 he became apostolic administrator of the see of Verona, occupying this post to his death.<ref name=Dictionary /> He was elected Bishop of Famagusta on 11 December 1503; he resigned this see on 1 July 1504.<ref name=Dictionary /> In July 1506, he was named titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, holding this see until 30 October 1507, and then again from 11 June 1521 until his death.<ref name=Dictionary /> In January 1511, he accompanied Pope Julius II during the siege of Mirandola.<ref name=Dictionary /> The pope then named him papal legate to the ''Patrimonium Sancti Petri'', holding this position until 1514.<ref name=Dictionary /> He was also involved in the negotiations to reconcile the Republic of Venice with Pope Julius II.<ref name=Dictionary />
He participated in the papal conclave of 1513 that elected Pope Leo X.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 19 March 1513 he opted for the deaconry of Santa Maria in Via Lata.<ref name=Dictionary />
During the Fifth Council of the Lateran, he served on the Commission of Reform.<ref name=Dictionary />
He became a canon of Treviso Cathedral on 23 April 1513.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 11 December 1513 he became chancellor of the metropolitan see of Nicosia.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 4 April 1514, he was elected Bishop of Nemosia; he resigned this see on 22 March 1516.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 9 March 1517 he became Bishop of Padua, occupying that see until his death.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 4 November 1517 he became a member of the commission of cardinals on war with the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=Dictionary /> He became administrator of the see of Nardò and legate to the ''Patrimonium Sancti Petri'' on 24 January 1519, holding this office until 20 February 1521.<ref name=Dictionary />
He became cardinal protodeacon on 20 December 1520.<ref name=Dictionary /> He participated in the papal conclave of 1521–22 that elected Pope Adrian VI.<ref name=Dictionary /> As cardinal protodeacon, he announced Adrian VI's election to the people of Rome on 9 January 1522 and crowned the pope in the papal coronation held in St. Peter's Basilica on 31 January 1522.<ref name=Dictionary />
He participated in the papal conclave of 1523 that elected Pope Clement VII.<ref name=Dictionary /> As cardinal protodeacon, he crowned the new pope on 26 November 1523.<ref name=Dictionary /> Cardinal Cornaro was one of three cardinals whom the new pope named to inquire about the Lutherans.<ref name=Dictionary />
On 14 December 1523 he opted for the order of cardinal priests and the titular church of San Marco.<ref name=Dictionary /> On 20 May 1524 he opted for the order of cardinal bishops and the Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano.<ref name=Dictionary /> He opted for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina on 15 June 1524.<ref name=Dictionary />
He died in Venice on 24 July 1524.<ref name=Dictionary /> He was initially buried in the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore.<ref name=Dictionary /> In 1570, his remains, along with those of the other cardinals of his family, were transferred to St Mark's Basilica.<ref name=Dictionary />
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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico | years = 1500–1513 | before = Giovanni Battista Zeno | after = Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena}} {{succession box | title = Administrator of Verona | years = 1503–1524 | before = Giovanni Michiel | after = Giovanni Matteo Giberti}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Famagusta | years = 1503–1504 | before = Alvise Cippico | after = Mattia Ugoni}} {{succession box | title = Titular Patriarch of Constantinople | years = 1506–1507 (1st term) | before = Francisco Lloris y de Borja | after = Tamás Bakócz}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata | years = 1513–1523 | before = Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní | after = Alessandro Cesarini (seniore)}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Nemosia | years = 1514–1516 | before = Nicola Dolci | after = Paolo Borgasio}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Padua | years = 1517–1524 | before = Sisto Gara della Rovere | after = Francesco Pisani}} {{succession box | title = Administrator of Nardò | years = 1519–1521 | before = Luigi d'Aragona | after = Giacomo Antonio Acquaviva}} {{succession box | title = Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano | years = 1520–1524 | before = Franciotto Orsini | after = Francesco Cornaro (seniore)}} {{succession box | title = Titular Patriarch of Constantinople | years = 1521–1524 (2nd term) | before = Tamás Bakócz | after = Egidio da Viterbo}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of San Marco | years = 1523 | before = Domenico Grimani | after = Francesco Pisani}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | years = 1524 | before = Pietro de Accolti de Aretio | after = Lorenzo Pucci}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | years = 1524 | before = Pietro de Accolti de Aretio | after = Lorenzo Pucci}} {{s-end}}
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