State (Secretariat) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Bishop(s)

Pietro Parolin, Cardinal, Secretary
Edgar Robinson Peña Parra, Substitute (Sostituto)
Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary (Relations with States)
Luciano Russo, Secretary (Pontifical Representations)
Joseph Murphy, Under Secretary
Daniel Pacho, Under Secretary
Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski, Under Secretary
George Jacob Koovakad, Cardinal, Official
Antonio Mennini, Official
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B., Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
Francesca Di Giovanni, Secretary Emeritus

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Secretariat
Established: 1793
Curial Office
Roman Curia
Description: as the Papal Secretariat, provides close assistance to the Roman Pontiff in the exercise of his supreme mission. (Praedicate Evangelium, 44)
Section on the Vatican Website: https://www.vatican.va/content/romancuria/en/segreteria-di-stato/segreteria-di-stato.index.html
Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/TerzaLoggia
Mailing Address: Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, Citta del Vaticano 00120
Telephone: 06.69.88.39.13
Fax: 06.69.88.52.55

Past and Present Ordinaries

Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli † (Sep 1644 Appointed - 3 Sep 1651 Died)
Fabio Chigi † (Dec 1651 Appointed - 7 Jan 1655 Resigned)
Giulio Rospigliosi † (Apr 1655 Appointed - 22 May 1667 Resigned)
Decio Azzolini (Jr.) † (25 Jun 1667 Appointed - 9 Dec 1669 Resigned)
Federico Borromeo (Jr.) † (May 1670 Appointed - 18 Feb 1673 Died)
Fabrizio Spada † (14 Jul 1691 Appointed - 27 Sep 1700 Resigned)
Fabrizio Paolucci † (3 Dec 1700 Appointed - 19 Mar 1721 Resigned)
Giorgio Spínola † (10 May 1721 Appointed - 7 Mar 1724 Resigned)
Fabrizio Paolucci † (6 Jun 1724 Appointed - 12 Jun 1726 Died)
Nicolò Maria Lercari † (14 Jun 1726 Appointed - 21 Feb 1730 Resigned)
Antonio Banchieri † (15 Jul 1730 Appointed - 16 Sep 1733 Died)
Giuseppe Firrao † (4 Oct 1733 Appointed - 6 Feb 1740 Resigned)
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga † (20 Aug 1740 Appointed - 28 Aug 1756 Died)
Alberico Archinto † (10 Sep 1756 Appointed - 30 Sep 1758 Died)
Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicini † (19 May 1769 Appointed - 23 Feb 1785 Died)
Ignazio-Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi † (29 Jun 1785 Appointed - 30 Sep 1789 Resigned)
Francesco Saverio de Zelada † (14 Oct 1789 Appointed - Aug 1796 Resigned)
Ignazio Busca † (9 Aug 1796 Appointed - 18 Mar 1797 Resigned)
Ercole Consalvi † (11 Aug 1800 Appointed - Jun 1806 Resigned)
Filippo Casoni † (Jun 1806 Appointed - 2 Feb 1808 Retired)
Giulio Gabrielli † (26 Mar 1808 Appointed - 16 Jun 1808 Resigned)
Ercole Consalvi † (19 May 1814 Appointed - 20 Aug 1823 Resigned)
Giulio Maria della Somaglia † (28 Sep 1823 Appointed - Jun 1828 Resigned)
Tommaso Bernetti † (17 Jun 1828 Appointed - 10 Feb 1829 Resigned)
Giuseppe Andrea Albani † (31 Mar 1829 Appointed - 30 Nov 1830 Resigned)
Tommaso Bernetti † (10 Aug 1831 Appointed - 20 Jan 1836 Resigned)
Luigi Emmanuele Nicolo Lambruschini, B. † (12 Jan 1836 Appointed - 1 Jun 1846 Retired)
Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi † (1 Aug 1846 Appointed - 5 Jul 1847 Resigned)
Gabriele Ferretti † (17 Jul 1847 Appointed - 31 Dec 1847 Resigned)
Giuseppe Bofondi † (2 Jan 1848 Appointed - 10 Mar 1848 Resigned)
Giacomo Antonelli † (10 Mar 1848 Appointed - 3 May 1848 Resigned)
Antonio Francesco Orioli, O.F.M. Conv. † (5 May 1848 Appointed - Jun 1848 Resigned)
Giovanni Soglia Ceroni † (4 Jun 1848 Appointed - 29 Nov 1848 Resigned)
Giacomo Antonelli † (18 Mar 1852 Appointed - 6 Nov 1876 Died)
Giovanni Simeoni † (18 Dec 1876 Appointed - 7 Feb 1878 Ceased)
Alessandro Franchi † (5 Mar 1878 Appointed - 31 Jul 1878 Died)
Lorenzo Nina † (9 Aug 1878 Appointed - 16 Dec 1880 Resigned)
Lodovico Jacobini † (16 Dec 1880 Appointed - 27 Feb 1887 Died)
Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro † (2 Jun 1887 Appointed - 20 Jul 1903 Ceased)
Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta † (12 Nov 1903 Appointed - 20 Aug 1914 Ceased)
Domenico Ferrata † (4 Sep 1914 Appointed - 10 Oct 1914 Died)
Pietro Gasparri † (13 Oct 1914 Appointed - 22 Jan 1922 Ceased)
Pietro Gasparri † (6 Feb 1922 Confirmed - 7 Feb 1930 Retired)
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (9 Feb 1930 Appointed - 10 Feb 1939 Ceased)
Luigi Maglione † (10 Mar 1939 Appointed - 22 Aug 1944 Died)
Domenico Tardini † (17 Nov 1958 Appointed - 30 Jul 1961 Died)
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (12 Aug 1961 Appointed - 30 Apr 1969 Retired)
Jean-Marie Villot † (2 May 1969 Appointed - 9 Mar 1979 Died)
Agostino Casaroli † (1 Jul 1979 Appointed - 1 Dec 1990 Retired)
Angelo Sodano † (29 Jun 1991 Appointed - 15 Sep 2006 Retired)
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B. (15 Sep 2006 Appointed - 15 Oct 2013 Retired)
Pietro Parolin (15 Oct 2013 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
1793	Established		Secretariat of State
27 February 1973	Territory Added	Apostolic Chancery (suppressed)	Secretariat of State

Affiliated Bishops, Living

Ettore Balestrero (Under Secretary: 17 Aug 2009 to 22 Feb 2013)
Giovanni Angelo Becciu (Substitute (Sostituto): 10 May 2011 to 29 Jun 2018)
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B. (Secretary: 15 Sep 2006 to 15 Oct 2013)
Antoine Camilleri (Under Secretary: 22 Feb 2013 to 3 Sep 2019)
Claudio Maria Celli (Under Secretary: 1 Dec 1990 to 16 Dec 1995)
Francesca Di Giovanni (Under Secretary: 15 Jan 2020 to 10 Jan 2023)
Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo (Official: 5 Sep 2016 to 18 Apr 2023)
Fernando Filoni (Substitute (Sostituto): 9 Jun 2007 to 10 May 2011)
Paul Richard Gallagher (Secretary (Relations with States): 8 Nov 2014)
George Jacob Koovakad (Official: 2020)
Giovanni Lajolo (Secretary (Relations with States): 7 Oct 2003 to 15 Sep 2006)
Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián (Official: 2001 to 4 Aug 2003)
Dominique François Joseph Mamberti (Secretary (Relations with States): 15 Sep 2006 to 8 Nov 2014)
Antonio Mennini (Official: 6 Feb 2017)
Celestino Migliore (Under Secretary: 16 Dec 1995 to 30 Oct 2002)
Joseph Murphy (Official: 1 Oct 1997; Under Secretary: 14 Sep 2023)
Daniel Pacho (Under Secretary: 10 Jan 2023)
Pietro Parolin (Under Secretary: 30 Nov 2002 to 17 Aug 2009; Secretary: 15 Oct 2013 - )
Jan Romeo Pawłowski (Official: 7 Dec 2015; Secretary (Pontifical Representations): 17 Dec 2020 to 10 Sep 2022)
Edgar Robinson Peña Parra (Substitute (Sostituto): 15 Aug 2018 - )
Giovanni Battista Re (Official: 12 Dec 1989 to 16 Sep 2000)
Mauricio Rueda Beltz (Under Secretary: 17 Dec 2020 to 16 Jun 2023)
Luciano Russo (Official: 27 Jan 2012 to 16 Feb 2012; Secretary (Pontifical Representations): 10 Sep 2022)
Leonardo Sandri (Substitute (Sostituto): 16 Sep 2000 to 9 Jun 2007)
Luciano Suriani (Official: 24 Sep 2009 to 7 Dec 2015)
Luigi Travaglino (Official: 30 Oct 2001 to 5 Jan 2011)
Carlo Maria Viganò (Official: 4 Apr 1998 to 16 Jul 2009)
Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski (Under Secretary: 24 Oct 2019)

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Giuseppe Andrea Albani † (Secretary: 31 Mar 1829 to 30 Nov 1830)
Giacomo Antonelli † (Secretary: 10 Mar 1848 to 3 May 1848; Pro-Secretary: 6 Dec 1848; Secretary: 18 Mar 1852 to 6 Nov 1876)
Lorenzo Antonetti †
Alberico Archinto † (Secretary: 10 Sep 1756 to 30 Sep 1758)
Decio Azzolini (Jr.) † (Secretary: 25 Jun 1667 to 9 Dec 1669)
Antonio Banchieri † (Secretary: 15 Jul 1730 to 16 Sep 1733)
Giovanni Benelli † (Substitute (Sostituto): 29 Jun 1967 to 3 Jun 1977)
Giuseppe Berardi † (Substitute (Sostituto): 16 Apr 1851 to 13 Mar 1868)
Tommaso Bernetti † (Secretary: 17 Jun 1828 to 10 Feb 1829; Pro-Secretary: 21 Feb 1831; Secretary: 10 Aug 1831 to 20 Jan 1836)
Giuseppe Bofondi † (Secretary: 2 Jan 1848 to 10 Mar 1848)
Januariusz Mikołaj Bolonek † (Official: 30 Sep 1998 to 11 Nov 1999)
Ignazio-Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi † (Secretary: 29 Jun 1785 to 30 Sep 1789)
Federico Borromeo (Jr.) † (Secretary: May 1670 to 18 Feb 1673)
Ignazio Busca † (Secretary: 9 Aug 1796 to 18 Mar 1797)
Ernesto Camagni † (Official: 4 Jun 1964 to 14 Jul 1966)
Nicola Canali † (Substitute (Sostituto): 21 Mar 1908 to 24 Sep 1914)
Francesco Capaccini † (Substitute (Sostituto): Nov 1831 to 10 Feb 1844)
Giuseppe (Joseph) Caprio † (Substitute (Sostituto): 14 Jun 1977 to 28 Apr 1979)
Agostino Casaroli † (Pro-Secretary: 28 Apr 1979; Secretary: 1 Jul 1979 to 1 Dec 1990)
Filippo Casoni † (Secretary: Jun 1806 to 2 Feb 1808)
Edward Idris Cassidy † (Substitute (Sostituto): 23 Mar 1988 to 12 Dec 1989)
Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. † (Official: 23 Aug 1951 to 30 Aug 1953)
Carlo Chiarlo † (Official: 1940 to 19 Mar 1946)
Fabio Chigi † (Secretary: Dec 1651 to 7 Jan 1655)
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (Secretary: 12 Aug 1961 to 30 Apr 1969)
Ercole Consalvi † (Pro-Secretary: 15 Mar 1800; Secretary: 11 Aug 1800 to Jun 1806)
Giovanni Coppa † (Official: 1 Dec 1979 to 30 Jun 1990)
Serafino Cretoni † (Pro-Substitute (Sostituto): 11 May 1878; Substitute (Sostituto): 19 Sep 1879 to 16 Nov 1880)
Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa † (Substitute (Sostituto): 23 Apr 1901 to 18 Dec 1907)
Angelo Dell’Acqua † (Substitute (Sostituto): 17 Feb 1953 to 26 Jun 1967)
Giulio Maria della Somaglia † (Secretary: 28 Sep 1823 to Jun 1828)
John Jarlath Dooley, S.S.C.M.E. † (Official: 15 Sep 1959 to 1966)
Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj † (Secretary: 16 Mar 1797 to 29 Aug 1799; Pro-Secretary: Feb 1808 to Mar 1808)
Domenico Enrici † (Official: 16 Jul 1973 to 1 Dec 1979)
Raymond Philip Etteldorf † (Official: Oct 1982 to 27 Dec 1984)
Ettore Felici † (Official: 15 Jan 1946 to 2 Sep 1949)
Giuseppe Ferraioli † (Official: 1982 to 1994)
Domenico Ferrata † (Secretary: 4 Sep 1914 to 10 Oct 1914)
Gabriele Ferretti † (Secretary: 17 Jul 1847 to 31 Dec 1847)
Giuseppe Firrao † (Secretary: 4 Oct 1733 to 6 Feb 1740)
Raffaele Forni † (Official: 23 Oct 1965 to 17 Jun 1967)
Alessandro Franchi † (Secretary: 5 Mar 1878 to 31 Jul 1878)
Giulio Gabrielli † (Secretary: 26 Mar 1808 to 16 Jun 1808)
Aurelio Galli † (Official: 5 Aug 1903 to 26 Mar 1929)
Ernesto Gallina † (Official: 4 Jan 1976 to 15 May 1999)
Pietro Gasparri † (Secretary: 13 Oct 1914 to 22 Jan 1922)
Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi † (Secretary: 1 Aug 1846 to 5 Jul 1847)
Carlo Grano † (Substitute (Sostituto): 17 Feb 1953 to 13 Dec 1958)
Lodovico Jacobini † (Secretary: 16 Dec 1880 to 27 Feb 1887)
Luigi Emmanuele Nicolo Lambruschini, B. † (Secretary: 12 Jan 1836 to 1 Jun 1846)
Nicolò Maria Lercari † (Secretary: 14 Jun 1726 to 21 Feb 1730)
Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (Official: 1 Jan 1957 to 16 Apr 1959)
Federico Lunardi † (Official: Dec 1947 to 8 Jul 1949)
Luigi Maglione † (Secretary: 10 Mar 1939 to 22 Aug 1944)
Ambrogio Marchioni † (Official: 1 Sep 1964 to 30 Jun 1967)
Giovanni Mariani † (Official: Jan 1978 to 25 Apr 1980)
Marino Marini † (Pro-Substitute (Sostituto): 13 Mar 1868; Substitute (Sostituto): 1871 to 23 Sep 1875)
Eduardo Martínez Somalo † (Official: 5 May 1979 to 1 Jul 1988)
Carlo Mauri † (Substitute (Sostituto): 3 Aug 1814 to 2 Feb 1830)
Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta † (Pro-Secretary: 4 Aug 1903; Secretary: 12 Nov 1903 to 20 Aug 1914)
Mario Mocenni † (Substitute (Sostituto): 16 Dec 1882 to 16 Jan 1893)
Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli † (Official: 1962 to 10 May 1963)
St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (Substitute (Sostituto): 13 Dec 1937; Official: 29 Nov 1952 to 1 Nov 1954)
Lorenzo Nina † (Secretary: 9 Aug 1878 to 16 Dec 1880)
Antonio Francesco Orioli, O.F.M. Conv. † (Secretary: 5 May 1848 to Jun 1848)
Alfredo Ottaviani † (Substitute (Sostituto): 7 Jun 1929 to 19 Dec 1935)
Bartolomeo Pacca † (Pro-Secretary: 18 Jun 1808 to 7 May 1814)
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (Secretary: 9 Feb 1930 to 10 Feb 1939)
Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicini † (Secretary: 19 May 1769 to 23 Feb 1785)
Luigi Pallotti † (Substitute (Sostituto): 16 Nov 1880 to 29 Oct 1882)
Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli † (Secretary: Sep 1644 to 3 Sep 1651)
Fabrizio Paolucci † (Secretary: 3 Dec 1700 to 19 Mar 1721)
Paolo Pappalardo † (Official: 1958 to 1964)
Angelo Pedroni † (Official: 1967 to 19 Jul 1969)
Giuseppe Pizzardo † (Substitute (Sostituto): 7 May 1921 to 8 Jun 1929)
Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro † (Secretary: 2 Jun 1887 to 20 Jul 1903)
Antonio Riberi † (Official: 1939 to 6 Jul 1946)
Vittore Ugo Righi † (Official: 1967 to 28 Apr 1980)
Egano Righi-Lambertini † (Official: 1974 to 30 Jun 1979)
Aristide Rinaldini † (Substitute (Sostituto): 31 May 1893 to 14 Aug 1896)
Saverio Ritter † (Official: 1948 to 21 Apr 1951)
Giulio Rospigliosi † (Secretary: Apr 1655 to 22 May 1667)
Angelo Rotta † (Official: 6 Apr 1945 to 1957)
Nicola Rotunno † (Official: 8 Dec 1987 to 27 Feb 1988)
Vincenzo Santucci † (Substitute (Sostituto): 26 Feb 1844 to 1 Aug 1846)
Paolo Sardi † (Official: 10 Dec 1996 to 23 Oct 2004)
Achille Silvestrini † (Secretary (Relations with States): 4 May 1979 to 1 Jul 1988)
Giovanni Simeoni † (Secretary: 18 Dec 1876 to 7 Feb 1878)
Angelo Sodano † (Secretary (Relations with States): 1 Mar 1989; Pro-Secretary: 1 Dec 1990; Secretary: 29 Jun 1991 to 15 Sep 2006)
Giovanni Soglia Ceroni † (Secretary: 4 Jun 1848 to 29 Nov 1848)
Fabrizio Spada † (Secretary: 14 Jul 1691 to 27 Sep 1700)
Giorgio Spínola † (Secretary: 10 May 1721 to 7 Mar 1724)
Domenico Tardini † (Substitute (Sostituto): 19 Dec 1935 to 16 Dec 1937; Secretary (Relations with States): 29 Nov 1952; Pro-Secretary: 29 Oct 1958; Secretary: 17 Nov 1958 to 30 Jul 1961)
Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran † (Under Secretary: 1 Mar 1989; Secretary (Relations with States): 1 Dec 1990 to 6 Oct 2003)
Federico Tedeschini † (Substitute (Sostituto): 30 Sep 1914 to 31 Mar 1921)
Alberto Tricarico † (Official: 26 Jul 1993 to 2002)
Luigi Tripepi † (Substitute (Sostituto): 1 Oct 1896 to 18 Apr 1901)
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga † (Secretary: 20 Aug 1740 to 28 Aug 1756)
Valerio Valeri † (Official: 23 Dec 1944 to 17 Jan 1953)
Vincenzo Vannutelli † (Pro-Substitute (Sostituto): 23 Sep 1875; Substitute (Sostituto): 29 Dec 1876 to 11 May 1878)
Gennaro Verolino † (Official: 15 Aug 1967 to 16 Apr 1969)
Jean-Marie Villot † (Secretary: 2 May 1969 to 9 Mar 1979)
Mario Zanin † (Official: 1946 to 21 Mar 1947)
Lino Zanini † (Official: 1961 to 30 May 1962)
Francesco Saverio de Zelada † (Secretary: 14 Oct 1789 to Aug 1796)

Source(s)

Annuario Pontificio, Year 2023, Page 1,137, and Page 1,144

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