- Congregation of Rites
The Sacred Congregation of Rites was a congregation of the
Roman Curia , erected onJanuary 22 ,1588 byPope Sixtus V and dissolved byPope Paul VI onMay 8 ,1969 .The Congregation was charged with the supervision of the liturgy and other sacraments, and with the process of
canonization ofsaint s. With the reforms of Paul VI, it was divided into theCongregation for the Causes of Saints and the Congregation for Divine Worship.The
secretary , or second-highest official, of the Congregation once served as the personal sacristan to thePope .Prefects
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Flavio Chigi (1759 - 1771)
*Giulio Maria della Somaglia (1800 - 1814)
*Giorgio Doria Pamphilj Landi (1821 - 1837)
*Carlo Maria Pedicini (1837 - 1843)
*Ludovico Micara , OFM Cap (1843 - 1844)
*Luigi Emmanuele Nicolo Lambruschini, B (1847 - 1854)
*Costantino Patrizi Naro (1854 - 1860)
*Luigi Cardinal Bilio , B (1876 - 1877)
*Tommaso Cardinal Martinelli , OSA (1877 - 1878)
*Domenico Bartolini (1878 - 1886)
*Angelo Bianchi (1887 - 1897)
*Carlo Laurenzi (1889 - 1895)
*Camillo Mazzella , SJ (1897 - 1900)
*Gaetano Aloisi Masella (1899 - 1902)
*Domenico Ferrata (1900 - 1902)
*Serafino Cretoni (1903 - 1909)
*Luigi Tripepi (1903 - 1906)
*Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli , OSA (1909 - 1918)
*Scipione Cardinal Tecchi (1914 - 1915)
*Antonio Vico (1915 - 1929)
*Camillo Laurenti (1929 - 1938)
*Carlo Salotti (1938 - 24 Oct 1947)
*Clemente Micara (1950 - 1953)
*Gaetano Cicognani (1953 - 1954)
*Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui, CMF (1962 - 1968)
*Benno Gut , OSB (1967 - 1969)External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13136a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dxccs.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
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