List of major cardinal penalties
Mauro Piacenza , incumbent cardinal major penitentiary
The cardinal major penitentiary is an office holder of the Catholic Church. The holder of this office, a cardinal, heads the Apostolic Penitentiary , an authority designed as a court of justice of the Vatican, which is responsible, among other things, for mercy and indulgences.
- Giovanni di San Paolo (approx. 1200-1216)
- Nicola de Romanis (1216-1219)
- Thomas of Capua (1219–1239)
- Hugo of Saint-Cher (circa 1245–1263)
- Guido Foucault (1263-1265)
- Henricus de Segusio (1266-1271)
- Pierre de Tarentaise (1273-1276)
- Bertrand de Saint-Martin (1276-1278)
- Bentivenga de Bentivengis (1279–1289)
- Matteo di Aquasparta (1289–1302)
- Gentile Partino (1302-1305)
- Béranger Frédol the Elder (1306-1323)
- Vacancy (1323-1327)
- Gauscelin de Jean (circa 1327-1348)
- Stephan Aubert (1348–1352), the later Pope Innocent VI.
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Gil Álvarez Carillo de Albornoz (1352-1367)
- Francesco degli Atti (Sub-Penitentiary approx. 1353-1361)
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Guillaume Bragose (Sub-Penitentiary 1361-1367, Major Penitentiary 1367)
- Galhardus de Boscoviridi (Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1367-1369)
- Etienne de Poissy (1369-1373)
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Jean du Cros (1373-1378)
- Giovanni d'Amelia (Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1378)
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Eleazario da Sabrano (1378–1379)
- Augustin de Lanzano (Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1379-1382)
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Luca Rodolfucci de Gentili (1382-1388)
- Augustin de Lanzano (Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1388-1389)
- Niccolo Caracciolo Moschino (1389)
- Francesco Carbone Tomacelli (1389–1405)
- Antonio Caetani (1405-1412)
- Pierre Girard (1409-1415)
- Giovanni Dominici (1415-1419)
- Giordano Orsini (1419-1438)
- Niccolò Albergati (1438–1443)
- Giuliano Cesarini (1444)
- Giovanni Berardi (1444-1449)
- Domenico Capranica (1449-1458)
- Filippo Calandrini (1459-1476)
- Giuliano della Rovere (1476–1503)
- Pedro Luis de Borja Llançol de Romaní (1503–1511)
- Leonardo Grosso della Rovere (1511–1520)
- Lorenzo Pucci (1520-1529)
- Antonio Pucci (1529-1544)
- Roberto Pucci (1545-1547)
- Ranuccio Farnese , OSIo.Hieros. (1547–1565)
- Charles Borromeo (1565–1572)
- Giovanni Aldobrandini (1572–1573)
- Stanislaus Hosius (1574–1579)
- Filippo Boncompagni (1579–1586)
- Ippolito Aldobrandini (1586–1592), later Pope Clement VIII.
- Giulio Antonio Santorio (1592-1602)
- Pietro Aldobrandini (1602-1605)
- Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini (1605-1610)
- Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1610-1632)
- Antonio Marcello Barberini , OFMCap. (1633-1646)
- Orazio Giustiniani (1647-1649)
- Niccolo Albergati-Ludovisi (1650–1687)
- Leandro Colloredo (1688-1709)
- Fabrizio Paolucci (1710-1721)
- Bernardo Maria Conti (1721-1730)
- Vincenzo Petra (1730–1747)
- Gioacchino Bessozzi (1747–1755)
- Antonio Andrea Galli (1755–1767)
- Giovanni Carlo Boschi (1767–1788)
- Francesco Saverio de Zelada (1788–1801)
- Leonardo Antonelli (1801-1811)
- Vacant (1811-1814)
| Surname | Year of birth / year of death | Appointment as cardinal | Cardinal major penitentiary | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michele Di Pietro | * 1747 † 1821 |
1814-1821 | ||
| Francesco Saverio Castiglioni | * 1761 † 1830 |
1816 | 1821-1829 | the later Pope Pius VIII. |
| Emmanuele De Gregorio | * 1758 † 1839 |
1816 | 1829-1839 | |
| Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli | * 1779 † 1852 |
1833 | 1839-1852 | |
| Gabriele Ferretti | * 1795 † 1860 |
1839 | 1852-1860 | |
| Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo | * 1797 † 1867 |
1844 | 1860-1867 | |
| Antonio Maria Panebianco OFM Conv | * 1808 † 1885 |
1861 | 1867-1877 | |
| Luigi Bilio | * 1826 † 1884 |
1866 | 1877-1884 | |
| Raffaele Monaco La Valletta | * 1827 † 1896 |
1868 | 1884-1896 | |
| Isidoro Verga | * 1832 † 1899 |
1884 | 1896-1899 | |
| Serafino Vannutelli | * 1834 † 1915 |
1887 | 1899-1915 | |
| Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum CSsR | * 1854 † 1932 |
1911 | 1915-1918 | |
| Oreste Giorgi | * 1856 † 1924 |
1916 | 1918-1924 | |
| Andreas Franz Frühwirth OP | * 1845 † 1933 |
1915 | 1925-1927 | |
| Lorenzo Lauri | * 1864 † 1941 |
1926 | 1927-1941 | |
| Nicola Canali | * 1874 † 1961 |
1935 | 1941-1961 | |
| Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui | * 1887 † 1973 |
1959 | 1961–1962 | |
| Fernando Cento | * 1883 † 1973 |
1958 | 1962-1967 | |
| Giuseppe Ferretto | * 1899 † 1973 |
1961 | 1967-1973 | |
| Giuseppe Paupini | * 1907 † 1992 |
1969 | 1973-1984 | |
| Luigi Dadaglio | * 1914 † 1990 |
1985 | 1985-1990 | |
| William Wakefield Tree | * 1926 † 2015 |
1976 | 1990-2001 | |
| Luigi de Magistris | * 1926 | 2015 | 2001-2003 | de Magistris was only Archbishop during his tenure, which is why his official title was 'Pro-Major Penitentiary'. He was inducted into the College of Cardinals in February 2015. |
| James Francis Stafford | * 1932 | 1998 | 2003-2009 | |
| Fortunato Baldelli | * 1935 † 2012 |
2010 | 2009–2012 | |
| Manuel Monteiro de Castro | * 1938 | 2012 | 2012-2013 | |
| Mauro Piacenza | * 1944 | 2010 | since 2013 |
- ↑ Andreas Fischer: Cardinals in the Conclave. The long vacancy of Sedis from 1268 to 1271. Library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 118, 2008, p. 221
- ^ Fifteen New Cardinals: Further Internationalization of the College , Vatican Radio , January 4, 2015