Master of the Order of Preachers

Shields of the Dominican Order.

The Master of the Order of Preachers is the worldwide leader of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans.

The Master of the Order of Preachers is ex officio Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.

Fr. Bruno Cadoré is the current Master of the Order and was elected in 2010 at a General Chapter held in Rome.

Masters of the Order

• Saint Dominic (1216 -1221)
• Jordan of Saxony (1222–1237)
• Raymond of Penyafort (1238–1240)
• Johannes von Wildeshausen (1241–1252)
• Humbert de Romans (1254–1263)
• Giovanni da Vercelli (1264–1283)
• Munio de Zamora (1285–1291)
• Étienne de Besançon (1292–1294)
• Niccolò Boccasini (1296–1298)
• Albertus de Chiavari (1300)
• Bernard de Jusix (1301–1303)
• Aymericus Giliani (1304–1311)
• Béranger de Landore (1312–1317)
• Hervé de Nédellec (1318–1323)
• Barnaba Cagnoli (1324–1332)
• Hugh de Vaucemain (1333–1341)
• Gerard de Daumar (1342)
• Pierre de Baume (1343–1345)
• Garin de Gy (1346–1348)
• Jean de Moulins (1349–1350)
• Simon de Langres (1352–1366)
• Elias Raymond (1367–1380)
• Raimondo delle Vigne (1380–1399)
• Tommaso Paccaroni (1401–1414)
• Leonardo Dati (1414–1425)
• Barthélémy Texier (1426–1449)
• Pierre Rochin (1450)
• Guy Flamochet (1451)
• Marcial Auribelli (1453–1462)
• Corrado di Asti (1462–1465)
• Marcial Auribelli (1465–1473)
• Leonardo Mansueti (1474–1480)
• Salvo Cassetta (1481–1483)
• Bartolomeo Comazzi (1484–1485)
• Barnaba Sansoni (1486)
• Gioacchino Torriani (1487–1500)
• Vincenzo Bandello (1501–1506)
• Jean Clérée (1507)
• Tommaso de Vio (1508–1518)
• Juan García de Loaysa (1518–1524)
• Francesco Silvestri (1525–1528)
• Paolo Butigella (1530–1531)
• Jean du Feynier (1532–1538)
• Agostino Recuperati (1539–1540)
• Alberto de las Casas (1542–1544)
• Francesco Romeo (1546–1552)
• Stefano Usodimare (1553–1557)
• Vincenzo Giustiniani (1558–1570)
• Serafino Cavalli (1571–1578)
• Paolo Constabile (1580–1582)
• Sisto Fabri (1583–1589)
• Ippolito Maria Beccaria (1589–1600)
• Jerónimo Xavierre (1601–1607)
• Agostino Galamini (1608–1612)
• Serafino Secchi (1612–1628)
• Niccolò Ridolfi (1629–1642)
• Tommaso Turco (1644–1649)
• Giovanni Battista de Marinis (1650–1669)
• Juan Tomás de Rocaberti (1670–1677)
• Antonio de Monroy (1677–1686)
• Antonin Cloche (1686–1720)
• Agustín Pipia (1721–1725)
• Tomás Ripoll (1725–1747)
• Antonin Brémond (1748–1755)
• Juan Tomás de Boxadors (1756–1777)
• Baltasar de Quiñones (1777–1798)
• Pio Giuseppe Gaddi (1798–1819)
• Joaquín Briz (1825–1831)
• Francesco Ferdinando Jabalot (1832–1834)
• Benedetto Maurizio Olivieri (1834–1835)
• Tommaso Giacinto Cipolletti (1835–1838)
• Angelo Ancarani (1838–1844)
• Vincenzo Ajello (1844–1850)
• Vincent Jandel (1850–1872)
• Giuseppe M. Sanvito (1873–1879)
• José Maria Larroca (1879–1891)
• Andreas Frühwirth (1891–1904)
• Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier (1904–1916)
• Ludwig Theissling (1916–1925)
• Buenaventura García de Paredes (1926–1929)
• Martin Gillet (1929–1946)
• Manuel Suárez (1946–1954)
• Michael Browne (1955–1962)
• Aniceto Fernández Alonso (1962–1974)
• Vincent de Couesnongle (1974–1983)
• Damian Byrne (1983–1992)
• Timothy Radcliffe (1992–2001)
• Carlos Azpiroz Costa (2001–2010)
• Bruno Cadoré (2010–present)