Master of the Order of Preachers

Master of the Order of Preachers
Master of the Order of Preachers
Maestro de la Orden de Predicadores
	Escutcheons of the Dominican Order.
	Incumbent; Gerard Timoner III; since 13 July 2019
Type	Religious order head
Member of	Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (as Chancellor)
First holder	Dominic de Guzman

The Master of the Order of Preachers is the Superior General of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans.^[1]

The Master of the Order of Preachers is ex officio Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, Italy, and of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.

Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III is the Master of the Order, as of his 2019 election at the General Chapter held in Biên Hòa.^[2]

Masters of the Order[]

No.	Master	Nationality	Tenure	Notes
1	St. Dominic	Kingdom of Castile	1216–1221	Founder of the Order of Preachers
2	Bl. Jordan of Saxony	Duchy of Saxony	1222–1237
3	St. Raymond of Penyafort	Crown of Aragon	1238–1240
4	John of Wildeshausen	Duchy of Saxony	1241–1252	Bishop of Bosnia (1233-1237)
5	Humbert of Romans	Kingdom of France	1254–1263
6	Bl. John of Vercelli	Kingdom of Sardinia	1264–1283
7	Munio of Zamora	Kingdom of Castile	1285–1291
8	Stephen of Besançon	Free Imperial City of Besançon	1292–1294
9	Nicola Boccasini	Kingdom of Italy	1296–1298	Elected pope and beatified as Benedict XI
10	Albertus de Chiavari	Kingdom of Italy	1300
11		Kingdom of France	1301–1303
12	Aymeric of Piacenza	Piacenza	1304–1311
13	Bérenger de Landore	Kingdom of France	1312–1317
14	Hervaeus Natalis	Kingdom of France	1318–1323
15	Barnaba Cagnoli	Vercelli	1324–1332
16	Hugh of Vaucemain	Duchy of Burgundy	1333–1341
17	Gerard de Daumar	Kingdom of France	1342
18		Kingdom of France	1343–1345
19		Kingdom of France	1346–1348
20	Jean de Moulins	Kingdom of France	1349–1350
21	Simon de Langres	Duchy of Burgundy	1352–1366
22	Elias Raymond	Kingdom of France	1367–1380
23	Bl. Raymond of Capua	Kingdom of Naples	1380–1399
24			1401–1414
25	Leonardo Dati	Republic of Florence	1414–1425
26		Kingdom of France	1426–1449
27		Kingdom of France	1450
28		Kingdom of France	1451
29	Martial Auribelli	Kingdom of France	1453–1462; 1465–1473	Elected in 1453, deposed on 1462 in favor of Conrad of Asti. Re-elected in 1465.
30	Conrad of Asti	Kingdom of Naples	1462–1465
31	Leonardo Mansueti		1474–1480
32			1481–1483
33			1484–1485
34			1486
35			1487–1500
36	Vincenzo Bandello	Duchy of Milan	1501–1506
37	Jean Clérée	Kingdom of France	1507
38	Thomas Cajetan	Kingdom of Naples	1508–1518
39	García de Loaysa	Kingdom of Spain	1518–1524
40	Francesco Silvestri	Duchy of Ferrara	1525–1528
41	Paolo Butigella	Republic of Venice	1530–1531
42	Jean du Feynier	Kingdom of France	1532–1538
43	Agostino Recuperati		1539–1540
44	Alberto de las Casas	Kingdom of Spain	1542–1544
45	Francesco Romeo	Republic of Florence	1546–1552
46	Stefano Usodimare	Republic of Genoa	1553–1557
47	Vincenzo Giustiniani	Republic of Genoa	1558–1570
48	Serafino Cavalli	Republic of Venice	1571–1578
49	Paolo Constabile	Duchy of Ferrara	1580–1582
50	Sisto Fabri	Republic of Lucca	1583–1589
51	Ippolito Maria Beccaria	Kingdom of Sardinia	1589–1600
52	Jerónimo Xavierre	Kingdom of Spain	1601–1607
53	Agostino Galamini	Papal States	1608–1612
54	Serafino Secchi	Pavia (Kingdom of Spain)	1612–1628
55	Niccolò Ridolfi	Republic of Florence	1629–1642
56	Tommaso Turco		1644–1649
57	Giovanni Battista de Marinis	Republic of Genoa	1650–1669
58	Juan Tomás de Rocaberti	Kingdom of Spain	1670–1677
59	Antonio de Monroy	Mexico	1677–1686
60	Antonin Cloche	Kingdom of France	1686–1720
61	Agustín Pipia	Kingdom of Spain	1721–1725
62	Tomás Ripoll	Kingdom of Spain	1725–1747
63	Antonin Brémond	Kingdom of France	1748–1755
64	Juan Tomás de Boxadors	Kingdom of Spain	1756–1777
65	Baltasar de Quiñones	Kingdom of Spain	1777–1798
66			1798–1819
67			1825–1831
68			1832–1834
69			1834–1835
70			1835–1838
71			1838–1844
72			1844–1850
73	Alexandre Vincent Jandel	France	1850–1872^[a]
74			1879–1891
75	Andreas Frühwirth	Austria	1891–1904
76	Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier	France	1904–1916
77			1916–1925
78	Bl. Buenaventura García de Paredes	Spain	1926–1929
79		France	1929–1946
80	Manuel Suárez Fernández	Spain	1946–1954
81	Michael Browne	Ireland	1955–1962
82	Aniceto Fernández Alonso	Spain	1962–1974
83		France	1974–1983
84		Ireland	1983–1992
85	Timothy Radcliffe	United Kingdom	1992–2001
86	Carlos Azpiroz Costa	Argentina	2001–2010
87	Bruno Cadoré	France	2010–2019
88	Gerard Timoner III	Philippines	2019–

Notes[]

^ Following Jandel's death in 1872, the Order was unable to hold an elective province in Europe until the end of the 1870s. Giuseppe M. Sanvito administered the order until José Maria Larroca's election as Master General in 1879.^[3]

References[]

^ GCatholic – Order of Preachers
^ "El filipino Fr. Gerard Timoner III elegido maestro de la Orden de Predicadores". dominicos.org (in Spanish). 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
^ Ashley, Benedict. "The Age of Compromise". Dominican Central Archives. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

[4] Following Jandel's death in 1872, the Order was unable to hold an elective province in Europe until the end of the 1870s. Giuseppe M. Sanvito administered the order until José Maria Larroca's election as Master General in 1879.^[3]

[1] GCatholic – Order of Preachers

[2] "El filipino Fr. Gerard Timoner III elegido maestro de la Orden de Predicadores". dominicos.org (in Spanish). 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2019-07-13.

[3] Ashley, Benedict. "The Age of Compromise". Dominican Central Archives. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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Master of the Order of Preachers
Maestro de la Orden de Predicadores
Escutcheons of the Dominican Order.
Incumbent Gerard Timoner III since 13 July 2019
Type	Religious order head
Member of	Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (as Chancellor)
First holder	Dominic de Guzman