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When did Alessandro Farnese become an ordained priest?
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Paul III, contemporary medallion; in the coin collection of the Vatican Library.
Alessandro Farnese, who later became Pope Paul III, was ordained as a priest in June 1519. He celebrated his first mass on Christmas of that same year.1
Although he had been created a cardinal deacon by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, he did not receive priestly ordination until several decades later, following a period in which he began to reform his private life and take his ecclesiastical duties more seriously.1