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Ippolito Aldobrandini ( 1592 -- 19 July 1638 ) was a Catholic Cardinal . He served as Camerlengo of the Holy ___MASK35___ Church from 1623 to 1638 . Pope Clement VIII , whose birth name was also Ippolito Aldobrandini , was his great - uncle . An apostolic constitution is the highest level of decree issued by the Pope . The use of the term " constitution " comes from Latin , which referred to any important law issued by the ___MASK35___ emperor , and is retained in church documents because of the inheritance that the canon law of the ___MASK35___ Catholic Church received from ___MASK35___ law . The Camerlengo of the Holy ___MASK35___ Church is an office of the Papal household that administrates the property and revenues of the Holy See . Formerly , his responsibilities included the fiscal administration of the Patrimony of St . Peter . As regulated in the Apostolic Constitution " Pastor Bonus " ( 1988 ), the Camerlengo is always a Cardinal , though this was not the case prior to the 15th century . His heraldic arms are ornamented with two keysone gold , one silverin saltire surmounted by an ombrellino , a canopy or umbrella of alternating red and yellow stripes . These are also the arms of the Holy See during a Papal interregnum . Pastor bonus ( Latin : " The Good Shepherd ") is an apostolic constitution promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988 . It instituted a number of reforms in the process of running the ___MASK32___ government of the ___MASK35___ Catholic Church , as article 1 states " The ___MASK35___ Curia is the complex of dicasteries and institutes which help the ___MASK35___ Pontiff in the exercise of his supreme pastoral office for the good and service of the whole Church and of the particular Churches . It thus strengthens the unity of the faith and the communion of the people of God and promotes the mission proper to the Church in the world ". Pope Clement VIII ( 24 February 1536  3 ___MASK84___ 1605 ), born Ippolito Aldobrandini , was Pope from 2 February 1592 to his death in 1605 . Born into prominent Florentine family , he initially came to prominence as a canon lawyer before being made a Cardinal - Priest in 1585 . In 1592 he was elected Pope and took the name of Clement . During his papacy he effected the reconciliation of Henry IV of ___MASK36___ to the Catholic faith and was instrumental in setting up an ___MASK80___ of Christian nations to oppose the Ottoman Empire in the so - called Long War . He also successfully adjudicated in a bitter dispute between the Dominicans and the Jesuits on the issue of efficacious grace and free will . In 1600 he presided over a jubilee which saw a large number of pilgrimages to ___MASK6___ . He showed little pity for his perceived opponents , presiding over the trial and execution of Giordano Bruno and introducing harsh measures against Jewish inhabitants of the Papal States . He may have been the first pope to drink coffee . Clement VIII died at the age of 69 in 1605 and his remains now rest in the Santa Maria Maggiore . The pope ( from " pappas ", a child ' s word for " father ") is the ___MASK21___ of ___MASK6___ and , therefore , the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . The primacy of the Roman bishop is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter , to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of " binding and loosing ", naming him as the " rock " upon which the church would be built . The current pope is Francis , who was elected on 13 March 2013 , succeeding Benedict XVI . The Holy See is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in ___MASK6___ , the episcopal see of the Pope , and an independent sovereign entity . It serves as the central point of reference for the Catholic Church everywhere and the focal point of communion due to its position as the pre - eminent episcopal see of the universal church . It traces its origin to the 1st century during the apostolic era , when Saint Peter arrived in ___MASK6___ to evangelise and formed a significant early Christian community of believers there . Today , it is responsible for the governance of all Catholics , organised in their Particular Churches , Patriarchates and religious institutes . A saltire , also called St Andrew ' s Cross , is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross , like the shape of the letter X in ___MASK35___ type . The word comes from the Middle French " sautoir " (" stirrup "), possibly owing to the shape of the triangular areas in the design . An interregnum ( plural interregna or interregnums ) is a period of discontinuity or " ___MASK82___ " in a government , organization , or social order . Archetypally , it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next ( coming from Latin " inter -", " between " and " rgnum ", " reign " [ from " rex , rgis ", " king "]), and the concepts of interregnum and regency therefore overlap . Historically , the longer and heavier interregna were typically accompanied by widespread unrest , civil and succession wars between warlords , and power vacuums filled by foreign invasions or the emergence of a new power . A failed state is usually in interregnum . Henry IV ( ___MASK98___ as ; 13 December 1553  14 May 1610 ), also known by the epithet " Good King Henry ", was King of Navarre ( as Henry III ) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610 . He was the first French monarch of the House of Bourbon , a branch of the Capetian dynasty . The ___MASK58___ ('; Modern Turkish : ' or '), also known as the Turkish Empire , Ottoman ___MASK5___ , was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman . After 1354 , the Ottomans crossed into Europe , and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire . The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of ___MASK81___ by Mehmed the Conqueror . ___MASK36___ , officially the ___MASK4___ , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK36___ extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK3___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK3___ , and from the Rhine to the ___MASK55___ . Overseas ___MASK36___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK36___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux .