List of the cardinal creations of Leo XIII.

Leo XIII.

Pope Leo XIII created 147 cardinals in 27 consistories . within his long pontificate (1878–1903).

May 12, 1879

John Henry Newman

• Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg
• Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez
• Lajos Haynald
• Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Pie
• Americo Ferreira dos Santos Silva
• Gaetano Alimonda
• Giuseppe Pecci SJ
• John Henry Newman CO
• Josef Hergenröther
• Tommaso Maria Zigliara OP

September 19, 1879

• Pier Francesco Meglia
• Giacomo Cattani
• Lodovico Jacobini
• Domenico Sanguigni

December 13, 1880

• Andon Bedros Hassun

• in pectore Carlo Laurenzi
• in pectore Pietro Lasagni
• in pectore Francesco Ricci Paracciani

March 27, 1882

• Domenico Agostini
• Charles Martial Lavigerie
• Joaquín Lluch y Garriga OCD
• Edward MacCabe
• Angelo Jacobini
• Carlo Laurenzi
• Francesco Ricci Paracciani

September 25, 1882

• Angelo Bianchi
• Włodzimierz Czacki

March 24, 1884

• José Sebastião d'Almeida Neto OFM
• Guglielmo Sanfelice D'Acquavella OSB

November 10, 1884

• Michelangelo Celesia OSB
• Antolín Monescillo y Viso
• Guglielmo Massaia OFMCap
• Celestine Josef Ganglbauer OSB
• Zeferino González y Díaz Tuñón OP
• Carmine Gori-Merosi
• Ignazio Masotti
• Isidoro Verga
• Pietro Lasagni

July 27, 1885

Paul Melchers

• Paul Melchers
• Alfonso Capecelatro di Castelpagano CO
• Francesco Battaglini
• Francis Patrick Moran
• Placido Maria Schiaffino OSB
• Carlo Cristofori

June 7, 1886

• Victor-Félix Bernadou
• Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
• Benoît-Marie Langénieux
• James Gibbons
• Charles-Philippe Place
• Augusto Theodoli
• Camillo Mazzella SJ

March 14, 1887

• Serafino Vannutelli
• Gaetano Aloisi Masella
• Luigi Giordani
• Camillo Siciliano di Rende
• Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro

May 23, 1887

• Luigi Pallotti
• Agostino Bausa OP

February 11, 1889

• Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet OSB
• Giuseppe D'Annibale
• Luigi Macchi

May 24, 1889

• François-Marie-Benjamin Richard
• Joseph Alfred Foulon
• Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert
• Pierre-Lambert Goossens
• Francis by Paula Schönborn
• Achille Apolloni
• Gaetano de Ruggiero

December 30, 1889

• in pectore Vincenzo Vannutelli

June 23, 1890

• Sebastiano Galeati
• Gaspard Mermillod
• Albin Dunajewski
• Vincenzo Vannutelli

June 1, 1891

• Luigi Rotelli
• Anton Josef Gruscha

December 14, 1891

• Fulco Luigi Ruffo-Scilla
• Luigi Sepiacci OSA

January 16, 1893

Philipp Krementz

• Giuseppe Guarino
• Mario Mocenni
• Amilcare Malagola
• Angelo Di Pietro
• Benito Sanz y Fores
• Guillaume-René Meignan
• Léon-Benoit-Charles Thomas
• Philipp Krementz
• Ignatius Camillus William Mary Peter Persico OFM
• Luigi Galimberti
• Michael Logue
• Kolos Ferenc Vaszary OSB
• Herbert Vaughan
• Georg von Kopp

• in pectore Adolphe-Louis-Albert Perraud
• in pectore Andreas Steinhuber SJ

June 12, 1893

Giuseppe Sarto, later Pius X.

• Victor Lécot
• Giuseppe Maria Granniello
• Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret CO
• Lőrinc hose
• Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (later Pope Pius X.)

May 18, 1894

• Egidio Mauri OP
• Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
• Domenico Svampa
• Andrea Carlo Ferrari
• Francesco Segna
• Andreas Steinhuber SJ

November 29, 1895

• Sylwester Sembratowicz
• Francesco di Paola Satolli
• Johannes Evangelist Haller
• Salvador Casañas y Pagés
• Girolamo Maria Gotti OCD
• Jean-Pierre Boyer
• Achille Manara
• Antonio María Cascajares y Azara
• Adolphe-Louis-Albert Perraud

June 22, 1896

• Domenico Maria Jacobini
• Antonio Agliardi
• Domenico Ferrata
• Serafino Cretoni

November 30, 1896

• Raffaele Pierotti OP
• Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco

April 19, 1897

• José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia
• Pierre-Hector Coullié
• Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré
• Guillaume-Marie-Romain Sourrieu

June 18, 1899

• Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago
• Francesco di Paola Cassetta
• Gennaro Portanova
• Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè
• Agostino Ciasca OSA
• François-Désiré Mathieu
• Pietro Respighi
• Agostino Richelmy
• Jacob Missia
• Luigi Trombetta
• José de Calasanz Félix Santiago Vives y Tutó OFMCap

• in pectore Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella
• in pectore Francesco Salesio Della Volpe

April 15, 1901

• Donato Maria dell'Olio
• Sebastiano Martinelli
• Casimiro Gennari
• Leo Skrbenský from Hříště
• Giulio Boschi
• Agostino Gaetano Riboldi
• Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko
• Bartolomeo Bacilieri
• Luigi Tripepi
• Felice Cavagnis
• Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella
• Francesco Salesio Della Volpe

June 22, 1903

Anton Fischer

• Carlo Nocella
• Beniamino Cavicchioni
• Andrea Aiuti
• Emidio Taliani
• Sebastián Herrero Espinosa de los Monteros
• Johannes Baptist Katschthaler
• Anton Fischer

Web links

• Consistories for the creation of Cardinals - Leo XIII (1878-1903). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2016.