Office Christianity
Master General of Order of Friars Preachers
Magister Ordinis Praedicatorum la
Leader of the Dominicans
- Also called superior general, Master of the Order of Preachers
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.
- 5 holders
- 2 gaps
- 2 steps named in the records
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.
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1st 1216 CE – 1221 CE Saint Dominic founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221) -
2nd 1222 CE – 1237 CE Jordan of Saxony German Catholic priest, Dominican friar and writer (1190–1237) -
3rd 1238 CE – 1240 CE Raymond of Penyafort Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia -
Gap about 14 years with no holder recorded
5th 1254 CE – 1263 CE Humbert of Romans French Dominican friar -
Gap about 33 years with no holder recorded
9th 1296 CE – 1298 CE Benedict XI pope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
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This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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