Office Christianity
superior general
Leader or head of a religious institute in the Roman Catholic Church, and some other Christian denominations
- Also called general superior, supreme moderator, mother general
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Everyone recorded as holding it
Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.
- 15 holders
- 3 overlapping pairs
- 12 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. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.
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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1840 CE – 14 May 1856 CE Théodore Guérin Catholic saint and nun from France (1798-1856) -
from 1843 CE Marie Theodor Ratisbonne Jewish convert and Catholic priest and founder (1802–1884) -
1848 CE – 1852 CE Francis Libermann French priest (1802-1852)
No dates recorded 12
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Dates unrecorded Bonaventure Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Catholic saint (1221–1274) Has references -
Dates unrecorded Norbert of Xanten 12th‑century German bishop and founder of the Premonstratensians, Catholic saint, reformer of clergy and defender of the Eucharist Has references -
Dates unrecorded Jordan of Saxony German Catholic priest, Dominican friar and writer (1190–1237) Has references -
Dates unrecorded Mother Teresa Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997) -
Dates unrecorded Ursula Ledóchowska Roman Catholic missionary and saint (1865–1939) -
Dates unrecorded Ambrose Traversari Italian monk and theologian (1386–1439) -
Dates unrecorded Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía Grandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572) Has references
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
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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