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Dean of the College of Cardinals

Decanus Collegii Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalium la

President of the College of Cardinals

  • Also called Dean of the College of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
Who held it Compare

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

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Succession in office

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 38 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 21 gaps
  • 13 steps named in the records
  • 2 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1181 CE – 1200 CE Conrad of Wittelsbach Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1200)

  2. Gap about 19 years with no holder recorded

    1219 CE – 26 March 1227 CE Gregory IX pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241

  3. Gap about 17 years with no holder recorded

    1244 CE – 19 December 1254 CE Alexander IV pope of the Catholic Church from 1254 to 1261

  4. Gap about 59 years with no holder recorded

    1313 CE – 1321 CE Nicolò Albertini Italian Dominican friar, bishop and cardinal

  5. Gap about 73 years with no holder recorded

    1394 CE – 1397 CE Philippe of Alençon French cardinal

  6. Gap about 52 years with no holder recorded

    23 April 1449 CE – 7 January 1451 CE Amadeus VIII of Savoy antipope 1439 to 1449, count of Savoy

  7. Gap about 11 years with no holder recorded

    27 April 1462 CE – 22 January 1483 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal

  8. Overlap held at the same time as Guillaume d'Estouteville

    1463 CE – 1472 CE Basilios Bessarion Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)

  9. Gap about 11 years with no holder recorded

    22 January 1483 CE – 11 August 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)

  10. Gap about 32 years with no holder recorded

    1524 CE – 1534 CE Paul III pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)

  11. Gap about 19 years with no holder recorded

    1553 CE – 1555 CE Paul IV pope of catholic church 1555-1559

  12. Gap about 25 years with no holder recorded

    1580 CE – 1589 CE Alessandro Farnese Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)

  13. Gap about 34 years with no holder recorded

    1623 CE – 1627 CE Francesco Maria del Monte cardinal and patron of music and art in Rome
  14. 1627 CE – 1629 CE Ottavio Bandini 17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal

  15. Gap about 23 years with no holder recorded

    1652 CE – 1666 CE Carlo de' Medici Catholic cardinal
  16. 1666 CE – 1679 CE Francesco Barberini Italian cardinal (1597-1679)

  17. Gap about 46 years with no holder recorded

    1725 CE – 1726 CE Fabrizio Paolucci Catholic cardinal (1651-1726)

  18. Gap about 12 years with no holder recorded

    1738 CE – 1740 CE Pietro Ottoboni Catholic cardinal

  19. Gap about 63 years with no holder recorded

    1803 CE – 1807 CE Henry Benedict Stuart Catholic cardinal Has references

  20. Gap about 13 years with no holder recorded

    1820 CE – 1830 CE Giulio Maria della Somaglia Catholic cardinal
  21. 1830 CE – 1844 CE Bartolomeo Pacca Italian cardinal

  22. Gap about 26 years with no holder recorded

    8 October 1870 CE – 17 December 1876 CE Costantino Patrizi Naro Catholic cardinal (1798-1876) Has references

  23. Gap about 2 years with no holder recorded

    15 July 1878 CE – 6 March 1884 CE Camillo di Pietro Catholic cardinal (1806–1884) Has references

  24. Gap about 5 years with no holder recorded

    24 May 1889 CE – 14 July 1896 CE Raffaele Monaco La Valletta Catholic cardinal (1827-1896) Has references

  25. Gap about 17 years with no holder recorded

    1913 CE – 1915 CE Serafino Vannutelli Catholic cardinal (1834–1915)
  26. 1915 CE – 1930 CE Vincenzo Vannutelli Catholic cardinal (1836–1930)
  27. 9 July 1930 CE – 16 February 1948 CE Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte Catholic cardinal (1851–1948) Has references

  28. Gap about 3 years with no holder recorded

    1951 CE – 21 February 1972 CE Eugène Tisserant French cardinal (1884–1972)
  29. 24 March 1972 CE – 17 December 1973 CE Amleto Giovanni Cicognani Italian catholic cardinal (1883-1973)
  30. Coat of arms of Luigi Traglia 7 January 1974 CE – 22 November 1977 CE Luigi Traglia Catholic cardinal (1895–1977) Has references
Show 6 more holders
  1. 1977 CE – 1986 CE Carlo Confalonieri Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1893–1986)
  2. 1986 CE – 1993 CE Agnelo Rossi Catholic cardinal (1913-1995)
  3. 5 June 1993 CE – 30 November 2002 CE Bernardin Gantin Beninese Catholic prelate and Servant of God (1922–2008)
  4. 27 November 2002 CE – 19 April 2005 CE Benedict XVI 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
  5. 30 April 2005 CE – 21 December 2019 CE Angelo Sodano cardinal of the Catholic Church
  6. from 18 January 2020 CE Giovanni Battista Re Italian cardinal

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