Pope Pius X (r. 1903–1914) created 50 cardinals in seven consistories. Twenty of them were Italians. He created 17 cardinals at four consistories over four years from 1903 to 1907 and then, after several postponements and allowing the membership of the College of Cardinals to fall to 47, created 19 cardinals in 1911, announcing 18 and reserving the name of one, the largest number of cardinals at a single consistory in a century.