Cardinal Title

S. Maria sopra Minerva

Also known as: St. Mary above Minerva (English), S. Mariae supra Minervam (Latin)

Church

Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Roma

History

1557: Established as Cardinal Title of S. Maria sopra Minerva (Italiano) / St. Mary above Minerva (English) / S. Mariae supra Minervam (Latin)

Cardinal-Protector

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor (77)
(2001.02.21 – ...)

Secretary of “Vox Clara” Committee
Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Westminster (United Kingdom)

Gaudium et spes

Born:	1932.08.24 (United Kingdom)
Ordained Priest:	1956.10.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.12.21
Created Cardinal:	2001.02.21

Bishop of Arundel and Brighton (United Kingdom) (1977.11.17 – 2000.02.15)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (United Kingdom) (2000.02.15 – 2009.04.03)

President of Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (2000.11 – 2009.04.30)

Vice-President of Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europae (C.C.E.E.) (2001 – 2006)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva (2001.02.21 [2001.10.20] – ...)

Secretary of “Vox Clara” Committee (2003 – ...)

Past Cardinal-Protectors

Cardinal Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, O.C.D. (1979.06.30 – 1998.06.21)
Cardinal Dino Staffa (1976.05.24 – 1977.08.07)
Cardinal Antonio Samorè (1967.06.29 – 1974.12.24)
Cardinal Clemente Micara (1946.02.22 – 1946.06.13, 1946.06.13 – 1965.03.11 in commendum)
Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (1939.12.11 – 1946.02.18)
Cardinal Giulio Serafini (1930.07.03 – 1938.07.16)
Cardinal Giuseppe Gamba (1926.12.23 – 1929.12.26)
Cardinal Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet (1922.12.14 – 1926.09.23)
Cardinal Teodoro Valfrè di Bonzo (1919.12.18 – 1922.06.25)
Cardinal John Murphy Farley (1911.11.30 – 1918.09.17)
Cardinal Serafino Cretoni (1896.12.03 – 1909.02.03)
Cardinal Egidio Mauri, O.P. (1895.12.02 – 1896.03.13)
Cardinal Ceferino González y Díaz Tuñón, O.P. (1887.03.17 – 1894.11.29)
Cardinal John McCloskey (1875.09.17 – 1885.10.10)
Cardinal Matteo Eustachio Gonella (1868.03.16 – 1870.04.15)
Cardinal Gaetano Bedini (1861.09.30 – 1864.09.06)
Cardinal Francesco Gaude, O.P. (1857.12.21 – 1860.12.14)
Cardinal Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho (1854.11.30 – 1857.11.15)
Cardinal Raffaele Fornari (1851.04.10 – 1854.06.15)
Cardinal Antonio Francesco Orioli, O.F.M. Conv. (1838.02.15 – 1850.09.30)
Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Velzi, O.P. (1832.12.17 – 1836.11.23)
Cardinal Benedetto Colonna Barberini di Sciarra (1829.05.21 – 1832.07.02)
Cardinal Francesco Bertazzoli (1823.05.16 – 1828.12.15)
Cardinal Francesco Fontana, B. (1816.04.29 – 1822.03.19)
Cardinal Giulio Maria Della Somaglia (1801.07.20 – 1814.09.26)
Cardinal Vincenzo Ranuzzi (1787.09.28 – 1800.10.27)
Cardinal Tommaso Maria Ghilini (1783.02.17 – 1787.04.04)
Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1770.12.12 – 1782.12.26)
Cardinal Giuseppe Pozzobonelli (1758.08.02 – 1770.05.28)
Cardinal Daniele Delfino (1747.11.20 – 1758.07.19)
Cardinal Philip Ludwig von Sinzendorf (1730.08.14 – 1747.09.28)
Cardinal Agostino Pipia, O.P. (1729.03.03 – 1730.02.19)
Cardinal Louis-Antoine de Noailles (1701.01.03 – 1729.03.03)
Cardinal José Sáenz de Aguirre, O.S.B. (1694.08.30 – 1699.08.19)
Cardinal Philip Thomas Howard of Norfolk, O.P. (1679.09.25 – 1694.06.17)
Cardinal Jean-François-Paul de Gondi de Retz (1655.05.14 – 1679.08.24)
Cardinal Giambattista Altieri (1643.08.31 – 1654.11.26)
Cardinal Giulio Roma (1621.03.03 – 1639.03.28)
Cardinal Ladislao d’Aquino (1616.10.17 – 1621.02.12)
Cardinal Francesco Maria Tarugi, C.O. (1602.06.17 – 1608.06.11)
Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P. (1589.11.08 – 1602.06.17)
Cardinal Michele Bonelli, O.P. (1566.03.20 – 1589.11.08)
Saint Cardinal Antonio-Michele Ghislieri, O.P. (later Pope Pius V) (1557.03.24 – 1561.04.14, 1565.05.15 – 1566.01.07)

as of 2010.07.20