List of Inquisitors of Malta

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The list of Inquisitors of Malta contains all the inquisitors who were responsible for the Inquisition in the Maltese Islands .

Pro-Inquisitors 1433-1561

The following pro-inquisitors were not directly responsible for the Inquisition tribunals in Malta. Matteo da Malta and Dominic Barthalu were only temporarily seconded. The rest of the Dominicans , apart from Barthalu, were inquisitors for Sicily and have never visited Malta. During the first four decades of the 16th century, the pro-inquisitors were non-resident bishops of Malta . Only Domenico Cubelles , as local bishop, also held the powers of an inquisitor.

  • Matteo da Malta (1433)
  • Salvo Cassetta OP (1472–1476)
  • Filippo de Barberiis OP (1475-1481)
  • Onofrio Cassetta OP (1481–1486)
  • Giacomo Reda OP (1486–1503)
  • Dominic Barthalu OP (as delegate for Giacomo Reda, 1486)
  • Giacomo Manso (as a delegate for Giacomo Reda, 1489–1497)
  • Brandinello de Saulis (1506)
  • Bernardino of Bologna (1509–1512)
  • Giovanni Pajades (1513)
  • Giovanni de Sepulveda (1514-1515)
  • Bernardo Catagnano (1516)
  • Raffaele Riario (1516–1519), cardinal
  • Andrea Della Valle (1519-1520), cardinal
  • Bonifacio Catagnano (1520-1523)
  • Girolamo Ghinucci (1523-1531), cardinal
  • Tommaso Bosio (1538–1539), also Bishop of Malta
  • Domenico Cubelles (1540–1561), also Bishop of Malta

Inquisitors and Apostolic Delegates 1561–1798

From the end of the 16th century, the inquisitor in Malta also held the position of apostolic delegate or apostolic nuncio . During this time, the office lost more and more of its original meaning and became the starting point of a curial career, in many cases for a cardinal career - 25 of the named here later became cardinals - that was for Popes Alexander VII and Innocent XII. even led to Peter's chair.

literature

  • Emanuel Buttigieg: Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580 – c.1700 . A&C Black, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4411-0243-0 .
  • Alexander Bonnici: Medieval and Roman Inquisition in Malta . Reliġjon u Ħajja, Malta 1998, ISBN 99909-47-21-X .
  • Lino Bugeja, Marion Buhagiar: Birgu. A Maltese Maritime City . tape II . Malta University Services, Malta 1993, ISBN 99909-44-00-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Luciano Ceyssens:  Casanate, Girolamo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 21:  Caruso – Castelnuovo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1978.