Office Christianity
Cardinal Secretary of State
Cardinalis Secretarius Status la
Presides over Secretariat of State of the Holy See
- Dated from 20 November 1551 CE
- Also called Secretary of State of His Holiness The Pope
Overview
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Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 21 holders
- 6 gaps
- 6 steps named in the records
- 7 undated
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1560 CE – 1584 CE Charles Borromeo Italian Catholic prelate (1538–1584) -
Gap about 21 years with no holder recorded
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1605 CE – 1621 CE Scipione Borghese 17th-century Catholic cardinal (1576-1633) -
Gap about 79 years with no holder recorded
1700 CE – 1721 CE Fabrizio Paolucci Catholic cardinal (1651-1726) -
Gap about 3 years with no holder recorded
1724 CE – 1726 CE Fabrizio Paolucci Catholic cardinal (1651-1726) -
Gap about 63 years with no holder recorded
14 October 1789 CE – 1 August 1796 CE Francesco Saverio de Zelada Spanish cardinal (1717-1801) -
Gap about 107 years with no holder recorded
12 November 1903 CE – 20 August 1914 CE Rafael Merry del Val Spanish cardinal and diplomat. (1865–1930) -
13 October 1914 CE – 22 January 1922 CE Pietro Gasparri cardinal of the Catholic Church (1852–1934) - 6 February 1922 CE – 7 February 1930 CE Pietro Gasparri cardinal of the Catholic Church (1852–1934)
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7 February 1930 CE – 2 March 1939 CE Pius XII pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 -
Gap about 22 years with no holder recorded
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12 August 1961 CE – 30 April 1969 CE Amleto Giovanni Cicognani Italian catholic cardinal (1883-1973) -
2 May 1969 CE – 9 March 1979 CE Jean-Marie Villot Roman Catholic cardinal (1905–1979) -
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1 July 1979 CE – 1 December 1990 CE Agostino Casaroli Catholic cardinal (1914-1998) -
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29 June 1991 CE – 15 September 2006 CE Angelo Sodano cardinal of the Catholic Church -
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15 September 2006 CE – 15 October 2013 CE Tarcisio Bertone cardinal of the Catholic Church
No dates recorded 7
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Dates unrecorded Giuseppe Doria Pamphili Catholic cardinal -
Dates unrecorded Giulio Maria della Somaglia Catholic cardinal -
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Dates unrecorded Alexander VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667 -
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Dates unrecorded Alessandro Franchi Italian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (1819-1878) -
Dates unrecorded Clement IX pope from 1667, lived 1600-1669 -
Dates unrecorded Francesco Nerli der Jüngere Italian cardinal -
Dates unrecorded Mariano Rampolla Italian cardinal (1843–1913)
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