Superior General of the Society of Jesus

This article lists chronologically to the Jesuit General Superiore, which are mentioned in the Jesuit Order and General provost.

The annual numbers after the names refer to the term of office.

• Ignatius of Loyola, 1541-1556
• Diego Lainez, 1558-1565
• Francisco de Borja, 1565-1572
• Everard Mercurian, 1573-1580
• Claudio Acquaviva, 1581-1615
• Mutio Vitelleschi, 1615-1645
• Vincenzo Carafa, 1646-1649
• Francesco Piccolomini, 1649-1651
• Luigi Gottifredi, 1652-1652
• Goswin Nickel, 1652-1664
• Giovanni Paolo Oliva, 1664-1681
• Charles de Noyelle, 1682-1686
• Thyrsus González, 1687-1705
• Michelangelo Tamburini, 1706-1730
• Franz Retz, 1730-1750
• Ignazio Visconti, 1751-1755
• Luigi Centurioni, 1755-1757
• Lorenzo Ricci, 1758-1775 (1773 dissolution of the Order by Pope Clement XIV )

• Tadeusz Brzozowski, 1814-1820 (1814 was approved by Pope Pius VII, the Order again)
• Aloysius Fortis, 1820-1829
• Joannes Philip Roothaan, 1829-1853
• Pierre Jean Beckx, 1853-1887
• Anthony Mary Anderledy, 1887-1892
• Louis Martin, 1892-1906
• Franz Xaver Wernz, 1906-1914
• Wladimir Ledochowski, 1915-1942
• Jean Baptiste Janssens, 1946-1964
• Pedro Arrupe, 1965-1983
• Paolo Dezza and Giuseppe Pittau, 1981-1983 ( 1981 by Pope John Paul II as a Substitute ( Apostolic Delegate ) for Pedro Arrupe (stroke) used )
• Peter Hans Kolvenbach, 1983-2008 (first joined General back )
• Adolfo Nicolás, since 2008

• List ( Superiors General )
• Superior General of the Jesuit Order