Secretary of State of His Holiness (Latin: Secretarius Status Sanctitatis Suae, Italian: Segretario di Stato di Sua Santità), known as the Cardinal Secretary...
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See, the administrative body of the Catholic Church, the cardinal secretary of state coordinates all the departments of the Roman Curia (and is in that...
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the institution of the cardinal-nephew declined as the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State increased and the temporal power of popes decreased in...
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Pietro Parolin (redirect from Pietro Cardinal Parolin)
prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since February 2014, he has served as the Vatican's Secretary of State since October 2013 and a member of the Council...
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bureaucracy of the Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of the Holy See...
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Rafael Merry del Val (redirect from Merry Cardinal del Val)
bishop, Vatican official, and cardinal. Before becoming a cardinal, he served as the secretary of the papal conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X...
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Tarcisio Bertone (redirect from Cardinal Bertone)
Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013. On 10 May 2008, he was named Cardinal-Bishop...
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Holy See (redirect from Holy See (Vatican City State))
Commissions. The Secretariat of State, under the Cardinal Secretary of State, directs and coordinates the Curia. The incumbent, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is the...
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Angelo Sodano (redirect from Cardinal angelo sodano)
and from 1991 onward a cardinal. He was the Dean of the College of Cardinals from 2005 to 2019 and Cardinal Secretary of State from 1991 to 2006; Sodano...
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Pope Pius XII (redirect from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli)
he served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany, and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity...
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commonly attributed to Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val (1865-1930), Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See under Pope Pius X. C. S. Lewis attributed its composition...
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Pietro Gasparri (redirect from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri)
Catholic cardinal, diplomat and politician in the Roman Curia and the signatory of the Lateran Pacts. He served also as Cardinal Secretary of State under...
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Agostino Casaroli (redirect from Cardinal Casaroli)
who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was an important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the religious persecution of the Church in...
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Giacomo Antonelli (redirect from Giacomo Cardinal Antonelli)
(2 April 1806 – 6 November 1876) was an Italian cardinal deacon. He was the Cardinal Secretary of State from 1848 until his death; he played a key role...
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Ercole Consalvi (redirect from Cardinal Consalvi)
24 January 1824) was a deacon and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who served twice as Cardinal Secretary of State for the Papal States and who played...
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of the Commission that handles some of the functions of the head of state until a new pope can be chosen, along with the former Cardinal Secretary of...
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cardinal and the first to serve as Cardinal Secretary of State in the Roman Curia. By the time of Pope Innocent X (1644–1655), the secretary of state...
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Domenico Tardini (redirect from Domenico Cardinal Tardini)
in the Secretariat of State. Pope John XXIII named him Cardinal Secretary of State and, in this position the most prominent member of the Roman Curia in...
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1903 papal conclave (redirect from Conclave of 1903)
candidate for the papacy, blocking the election of the leading candidate, Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla. Sarto was elected on the seventh...
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Jean-Marie Villot (redirect from Cardinal Jean Villot)
1969, Vatican Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979, and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1970 to 1979. He was made a cardinal in 1965. He was...
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Carlo Maria Viganò (category Permanent Observers of the Holy See to the Council of Europe)
pope and to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, by Viganò, complaining of corruption in Vatican finances and a campaign of defamation against...
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Pope Benedict XV (redirect from Giacomo Cardinal della Chiesa)
activities throughout the Church. He named Gasparri to be his Cardinal Secretary of State and personally consecrated Nuncio Pacelli on 13 May 1917 as Archbishop...
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Luigi Maglione (redirect from Luigi Cardinal Maglione)
an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935 and served as the Vatican Secretary of State under Pope Pius...
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Vatican City (redirect from State of the City of the Vatican)
vacancies: Cardinal Secretary of State, Camerlengo, Chancellor, and Prefect for the Congregation for the Religious among them. Pius XII created 32 cardinals in...
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Quis separabit? (category Mottoes of orders of chivalry)
separabit a caritate Christi? is the motto of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the present Cardinal Secretary of State. Romans 8:35 "The Royal Dragoon Guards -...
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Section for Relations with States (redirect from Secretary for Relations with States)
of three sections, of which this congregation was the first: The Office of the Secretariat of State, presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State...
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Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of Government, and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State, on 11 February 1929. The agreements...
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Pope Alexander VII (category Cardinal Secretaries of State)
December 1651 Pope Innocent named Cardinal Chigi Secretary of State. He was created cardinal by Innocent X in the Consistory of 19 February 1652, and on 12...
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Pope John XXIII (redirect from Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli)
the crowds of the faithful below in Saint Peter's Square. That same night, he appointed Domenico Tardini as his Cardinal Secretary of State. Of the three...
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to Rome by Pope Pius XI and on 7 February 1930 appointed as Cardinal Secretary of State succeeding his mentor and friend Pietro Gasparri. Francesco Pacelli...
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