List of cardinal protodiacons

The office of cardinal protodiac has existed in the Roman Catholic Church for hundreds of years and is particularly well-known for the task of proclaiming the election of a new Pope and his name.

Surname	Year of birth	Year of death	Elevation to cardinal	Cardinal Protodeacon	comment
Ottaviano di Paoli de 'Conti di Segni	* 11 ??	† 1234	1205	1221-1227	Crowned Pope Gregory IX.
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Matteo Rubeo Orsini	* 12 ??	† 1305	1263	1287-1305
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Gaillard de la Mothe	* 12 ??	† 1356	1316	before 1352-1356	Crowned Pope Benedict XII. and Pope Innocent VI.
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Andreas of Austria	* 1558	† 1600	1576	1590-1600	Announced Pope Innocent IX.
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Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto	* 1573	† 1629	1596	1621	Crowned Pope Gregory XV.
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Giangiacomo Teodoro Trivulzio	* 1597	† 1656	1629	1653-1655
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Virginio Orsini , OSIo.Hieros.	* 1615	† 1676	1642	1656-1666
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Gregorio Antonio Maria Salviati	* 1727	† 1794	1777	17 ?? - 1794
Antonio Maria Doria Pamphilj	* 1749	† 1821	1785	1798-1821	Announced Pope Pius VII.
Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo	* 1744	† 1827	1791	1821-1827	Announced Pope Leo XII.
Giuseppe Albani	* 1750	† 1834	1801	1827-1834	Announced Pope Pius VIII and Pope Gregory XVI.
Agostino Rivarola	* 1758	† 1842	1817	1834-1842
Tommaso Riario Sforza	* 1782	† 1857	1823	1842-1857	Announced Pope Pius IX.
Ludovico Gazzoli	* 1774	† 1858	1831	1857-1858
Giuseppe Ugolini	* 1783	† 1867	1838	1858-1867	Cardinal without ordination
Giacomo Antonelli	* 1806	† 1876	1847	1867-1876	Cardinal without ordination
Prospero Caterini	* 1795	† 1881	1853	1876-1881	Announced Pope Leo XIII.
Theodulf Mertel	* 1806	† 1899	1858	1881-1884	last cardinal without ordination; was also a cardinal proto-priest from 1885–1899
Domenico Consolini	* 1806	† 1884	1866	1884
Lorenzo Ilarione Randi	* 1818	† 1887	1875	1884-1887
Giuseppe Pecci	* 1807	† 1890	1879	1887-1890
John Henry Newman CO	* 1801	† 1890	1879	1890
Joseph Hergenröther	* 1824	† 1890	1879	1890
Tommaso Zigliara OP	* 1833	† 1893	1879	1890-1891
Isidoro Verga	* 1832	† 1899	1884	1891-1896
Luigi Macchi	* 1832	† 1907	1889	1896-1907	Announced Pope Pius X.
Andreas Steinhuber SJ	* 1825	† 1907	1893	1907
Francesco Segna	* 1836	† 1911	1894	1907-1911
Francesco Salesio Della Volpe	* 1844	† 1916	1899	1911-1916	Announced Pope Benedict XV.
Gaetano Bisleti	* 1856	† 1937	1911	1916-1928	Announced Pope Pius XI.
Camillo Laurenti	* 1861	† 1938	1921	1928-1935
Camillo Caccia Dominioni	* 1877	† 1946	1935	1935-1946	Announced Pope Pius XII.
Nicola Canali	* 1874	† 1961	1935	1946-1961	Announced Pope John XXIII.
Alfredo Ottaviani	* 1890	† 1979	1953	1961-1967	Announced Pope Paul VI.
Arcadio María Larraona CMF	* 1887	† 1973	1959	1967-1969
William Theodore Heard	* 1884	† 1973	1959	1969-1970
Antonio Bacci	* 1885	† 1971	1960	1970-1971
Michael Browne OP	* 1887	† 1971	1962	1971
Federico Callori di Vignale	* 1890	† 1971	1965	1971
Charles Journet	* 1891	† 1975	1965	1971-1973
Pericle Felici	* 1911	† 1982	1967	1973-1979	Announced Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II.
Sergio Pignedoli	* 1910	† 1980	1973	1979-1980
Umberto Mozzoni	* 1904	† 1983	1973	1980-1983
Opilio Rossi	* 1910	† 2004	1976	1983-1987
Giuseppe Caprio	* 1914	† 2005	1979	1987-1990
Aurelio Sabattani	* 1912	† 2003	1983	1990-1993
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy	* 1924	† 2014	1985	1993-1996
Eduardo Martínez Somalo	* 1927		1988	1996-1999
Pio Laghi	* 1922	† 2009	1991	1999-2002
Luigi Poggi	* 1917	† 2010	1994	2002-2005
Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez	* 1926		1998	2005-2007	Announced Pope Benedict XVI.
Darío Castrillón Hoyos	* 1929	† 2018	1998	2007-2008
Agostino Cacciavillan	* 1926		2001	2008-2011
Jean-Louis Tauran	* 1943	† 2018	2003	2011-2014	Announced Pope Francis
Renato Raffaele Martino	* 1932		2003	since 2014