Theologian of the Pontifical Household

The Magister sacri palatii (Latin ) was the original teacher of the servants of the Pope and the Cardinals. He's since the beginning of the 16th century by the Pope entrusted with the " censorship of books " House theologian who must be a Dominican forever.

Significant court theologians were, for example, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Agostino Orsi or spine. Ironically, however, Giovanni Nanni (1432-1502) distinguished himself in this position by today valuable forgery ( Berosus Babilonicus. De his quae praecesserunt inundationem terrarum ) allegedly unknown fragments of ancient authors by Annius of Viterbo forth.

Significant court theologians were, for example,

  • Annius of Viterbo (up to 1502)
  • Silvester Mazzolini (1515-1523)
  • Bartolomeo de Spina (1542-1546)
  • Giuseppe Agostino Orsi (1749-1761)
  • Raffaele Pierotti (1887-1897)
  • Mariano Felice Cordovani (1936-1950)
  • Michael Browne (1951-1955)
  • Mario Luigi Ciappi (1955-1989)
  • Georges Cottier (1989-2005)
  • Wojciech Giertych (since 2005)
Valet Cardinal (Catholicism) Dominican Order Annio da Viterbo Bartolommeo Spina Michael Browne (cardinal)
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