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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
Who held it Compare

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Who held it, in order

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

  • 5 holders
  • 2 gaps
  • 2 steps named in the records
  1. 1st 1216 CE – 1221 CE Saint Dominic founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)
  2. 2nd 1222 CE – 1237 CE Jordan of Saxony German Catholic priest, Dominican friar and writer (1190–1237)
  3. 3rd 1238 CE – 1240 CE Raymond of Penyafort Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia

  4. Gap about 14 years with no holder recorded

    5th 1254 CE – 1263 CE Humbert of Romans French Dominican friar

  5. Gap about 33 years with no holder recorded

    9th 1296 CE – 1298 CE Benedict XI pope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
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