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[edit] Papacy began dates

"Papacy began dates" - some are installation dates, not election dates.

It's important to mark "papacy began date". But the marking of "consecration date" or "installation date" needs to change the Infobox. There is a disturbance about these dates because about before 795 year a pontificate began on the consecration day (after the confirmation by Emperor of Byzantine, his Exarch or the Frankish King), but later these rules changed and it has been election day.[1], [2], J.N.D. Kelly Dictionary of Popes, and etc. Benedict XVI is pope from April 19, not April 24.[3]

There is also a problem about Leo X. He was elected on March 9 1513, but he was promulgated on March 11. And it's about Marcellus II too.