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Bernardino López de Carvajal (born 1456 at Plasencia in Extremadura Spain; d. at Rome 16 December 1523) was a Spanish Cardinal.He was a nephew of Cardinal Juan Carvajal and advanced rapidly in the ecclesiastical career at Rome whither he came during the pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84). Under Pope Innocent VIII he held successively the Spanish sees of Astorga (1488) Badajoz (1489) and Cartagena in which latter quality he was sent as nuncio to Spain.

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