List of Cardinal protectors of Scotland

This is a list of Cardinal protectors of Scotland. Protectors represented the interests of a particular religious institution or nation at the Papal court. This particular office was revitalised upon the establishment of the Scots College in Rome by Pope Clement VIII on 5 December 1600, when it was put under the authority of Cardinal Camillo Borghese. The last Cardinal to hold the office died in 1970.

Protectors

Pre-Reformation

Antonio Pallavicini Gentili, 1504–07 Pietro Accolti, 1514–32 Benedetto Accolti, 1532–38 Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, 1538–49 Giovanni Domenico de Cupis, 1550–53 Niccolò Caetani, 1570–85

Post-Reformation Source:

Camillo Borghese, 1600–05 Maffeo Barberini, 1607/8–23 Francesco Barberini, 1623–79 Philip Howard, 1680–94 Alessandro Caprara, 1694–1706 Giuseppe Sacripante, 1706–27 Alessandro Falconieri, 1727–34 Domenico Riviera, 1734–52 Giuseppe Spinelli, 1753–63 Gian Francesco Albani, 1763–73; 1780–1803 Mario Marefoschi, 1773–74 Francesco Carafa, 1774–80 Charles Erskine, 1803–11 Bartolomeo Pacca, 1811–35 Giacomo Filippo Fransoni, 1835–56 Alessandro Barnabò, 1856–74 Alessandro Franchi, 1874–78 Giovanni Simeoni, 1878–92 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, 1892–1902 Girolamo Maria Gotti, 1902–16 Domenico Serafini, 1916–18 Gaetano de Lai, 1918–28 Rafael Merry del Val, 1928–30 Franz Ehrle, 1930–34 Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, 1934–51 Giuseppe Pizzardo, 1951–70

See also

Scots College, Rome Cardinal protector of England

References