List of Cardinal Priests of San Silvestro in Capite
The following cardinals were cardinal priests of San Silvestro in Capite :
- Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme (1517-1521); in commendam (1521–1533)
- vacant (1533– 1540 )
- Uberto Gambara (1540-1541)
- Tommaso Badia OP (1542–1547)
- vacant (1547– 1551 )
- Fabio Mignanelli (1551–1556)
- Taddeo Gaddi (1557–1561)
- Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle , in commendam (1562–1565)
- Annibale Bozzuti (1565)
- Marco Antonio Bobba (1566–1572)
- vacant (1572–1585)
- François de Joyeuse (1585–1587)
- Pierre de Gondi (1588–1594)
- Francisco de Avila (1597–1599)
- Franz Xaver von Dietrichstein (1599–1623)
- Melchior Klesl (1623-1624)
- vacant (1624– 1631 )
- Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta (1631-1652)
- Girolamo Colonna (1652-1653)
- Domingo Pimentel Zúñiga OP (1653)
- Carlo Rossetti (1654–1672)
- Gaspare Carpegna (1672–1689)
- Girolamo Casanate (1689-1700)
- Giovanni Francesco Albani (1700)
- Johann Philipp von Lamberg (1701–1712)
- Lodovico Pico della Mirandola (1712–1728)
- Prospero Marfoschi (1728–1732)
- Francesco Borghese (1732–1743)
- Vincenzo Bichi (1743)
- Antonio Maria Ruffo (1743–1753)
- Federico Marcello Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere (1753–1759)
- Ferdinando Maria de 'Rossi (1759–1767)
- François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1769–1774)
- Innocenzo Conti (1775–1783)
- Giovanni Maria Rimaldini (1787–1789)
- Francesco Carrara (1791–1793)
- Carlo Livizzani Forni (1794–1802)
- Bartolomeo Pacca (1802-1818)
- Antonio Pallotta (1823-1834)
- Luigi Bottiglia Savoulx (1834–1836)
- Costantino Patrizi Naro (1836–1849)
- Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu (1852–1875)
- Louis-Marie-Joseph-Eusèbe Caverot (1877-1884)
- vacant (1884-1891)
- Vincenzo Vannutelli (1891-1900); in commendam (1900-1916)
- Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza (1916–1928)
- Luigi Lavitrano (1929–1950)
- Valerio Valeri (1953-1963)
- John Carmel Heenan (1965-1975)
- George Basil Hume OSB (1976–1999)
- Desmond Connell (2001-2017)
- Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun (since 2017)