Master of the Order of Preachers
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The Master of the Order of Preachers is the 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, Italy.
Fr. Bruno Cadoré is the current Master of the order, elected in 2010 at a General Chapter held in Rome.[1]
Masters of the Order
| No. | Image | Master | Nationality | Tenure | Notes |
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| 1 | 
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St. Dominic | Kingdom of Castile | 1216–1221 | Founder of the Order of Preachers |
| 2 | 
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Bl. Jordan of Saxony | Duchy of Saxony | 1222–1237 | |
| 3 | 
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St. Raymond of Penyafort | Kingdom of Aragon | 1238–1240 | |
| 4 | 
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John of Wildeshausen | Duchy of Saxony | 1241–1252 | |
| 5 | Bl. Humbert of Romans | Kingdom of France | 1254–1263 | ||
| 6 | Bl. John of Vercelli | Kingdom of Sardinia | 1264–1283 | ||
| 7 | Munio of Zamora | Kingdom of Castile | 1285–1291 | ||
| 8 | Stephen of Besançon | Free Imperial City of Besançon | 1292–1294 | ||
| 9 | 
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Nicola Boccasini | Kingdom of Italy | 1296–1298 | |
| 10 | Albertus de Chiavari | Kingdom of Italy | 1300 | ||
| 11 | Bernard de Jusix | Kingdom of France | 1301–1303 | ||
| 12 | Aymeric of Piacenza | Piacenza | 1304–1311 | ||
| 13 | Bérenger de Landore | Kingdom of France | 1312–1317 | ||
| 14 | Hervaeus Natalis | Kingdom of France | 1318–1323 | ||
| 15 | Barnaba Cagnoli | Vercelli | 1324–1332 | ||
| 16 | Hugh of Vaucemain | Duchy of Burgundy | 1333–1341 | ||
| 17 | Gerard de Daumar | Kingdom of France | 1342 | ||
| 18 | Pierre de Baume | Kingdom of France | 1343–1345 | ||
| 19 | Garin de Gy | Kingdom of France | 1346–1348 | ||
| 20 | 
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Jean de Moulins | Kingdom of France | 1349–1350 | |
| 21 | Simon de Langres | Duchy of Burgundy | 1352–1366 | ||
| 22 | Elias Raymond | Kingdom of France | 1367–1380 | ||
| 23 | 
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Bl. Raymond of Capua | Kingdom of Naples | 1380–1399 | |
| 24 | Tommaso Paccaroni | 1401–1414 | |||
| 25 | Leonardo Dati | Republic of Florence | 1414–1425 | ||
| 26 | Barthélémy Texier | Kingdom of France | 1426–1449 | ||
| 27 | Pierre Rochin | Kingdom of France | 1450 | ||
| 28 | Guy Flamochet | Kingdom of France | 1451 | ||
| 29 | Martial Auribelli | Kingdom of France | 1453–1462 | ||
| 30 | Conrad of Asti | Kingdom of Naples | 1462–1465 | ||
| 31 | Martial Auribelli | Kingdom of France | 1465–1473 | ||
| 32 | Leonardo Mansueti | 1474–1480 | |||
| 33 | Salvo Cassetta | 1481–1483 | |||
| 34 | Bartolomeo Comazzi | 1484–1485 | |||
| 35 | Barnaba Sansoni | 1486 | |||
| 36 | Gioacchino Torriani | 1487–1500 | |||
| 37 | Vincenzo Bandello | Duchy of Milan | 1501–1506 | ||
| 38 | Jean Clérée | Kingdom of France | 1507 | ||
| 39 | Thomas Cajetan | Kingdom of Naples | 1508–1518 | ||
| 40 | 
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García de Loaysa | Kingdom of Spain | 1518–1524 | |
| 41 | Francesco Silvestri | Duchy of Ferrara | 1525–1528 | ||
| 42 | Paolo Butigella | Republic of Venice | 1530–1531 | ||
| 43 | Jean du Feynier | Kingdom of France | 1532–1538 | ||
| 44 | Agostino Recuperati | 1539–1540 | |||
| 45 | Alberto de las Casas | Kingdom of Spain | 1542–1544 | ||
| 46 | Francesco Romeo | Republic of Florence | 1546–1552 | ||
| 47 | Stefano Usodimare | Republic of Genoa | 1553–1557 | ||
| 48 | Vincenzo Giustiniani | Republic of Genoa | 1558–1570 | ||
| 49 | Serafino Cavalli | Republic of Venice | 1571–1578 | ||
| 50 | Paolo Constabile | Duchy of Ferrara | 1580–1582 | ||
| 51 | Sisto Fabri | Republic of Lucca | 1583–1589 | ||
| 52 | Ippolito Maria Beccaria | Kingdom of Sardinia | 1589–1600 | ||
| 53 | Jerónimo Xavierre | Kingdom of Spain | 1601–1607 | ||
| 54 | Agostino Galamini | Papal States | 1608–1612 | ||
| 55 | Serafino Secchi | Pavia (Kingdom of Spain) | 1612–1628 | ||
| 56 | 
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Niccolò Ridolfi | Republic of Florence | 1629–1642 | |
| 57 | Tommaso Turco | 1644–1649 | |||
| 58 | Giovanni Battista de Marinis | Republic of Genoa | 1650–1669 | ||
| 59 | 
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Juan Tomás de Rocaberti | Kingdom of Spain | 1670–1677 | |
| 60 | Antonin Cloche | Kingdom of France | 1686–1720 | ||
| 61 | Agustín Pipia | Kingdom of Spain | 1721–1725 | ||
| 62 | 
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Tomás Ripoll | Kingdom of Spain | 1725–1747 | |
| 63 | Antonin Brémond | Kingdom of France | 1748–1755 | ||
| 64 | 
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Juan Tomás de Boxadors | Kingdom of Spain | 1756–1777 | |
| 65 | 
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Baltasar de Quiñones | Kingdom of Spain | 1777–1798 | |
| 66 | Pio Giuseppe Gaddi | 1798–1819 | |||
| 67 | Joaquín Briz | 1825–1831 | |||
| 68 | Francesco Ferdinando Jabalot | 1832–1834 | |||
| 69 | Benedetto Maurizio Olivieri | 1834–1835 | |||
| 70 | Tommaso Giacinto Cipolletti | 1835–1838 | |||
| 71 | Angelo Ancarani | 1838–1844 | |||
| 72 | Vincenzo Ajello | 1844–1850 | |||
| 73 | Alexandre Vincent Jandel | France | 1850–1872 | ||
| 74 | Giuseppe M. Sanvito | 1873–1879 | |||
| 75 | José Maria Larroca | 1879–1891 | |||
| 76 | Andreas Frühwirth | Austria | 1891–1904 | ||
| 77 | 
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Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier | France | 1904–1916 | |
| 78 | Ludwig Theissling | 1916–1925 | |||
| 79 | Buenaventura García de Paredes | Spain | 1926–1929 | ||
| 80 | Martin Gillet | France | 1929–1946 | ||
| 81 | Manuel Suárez Fernández | 1946–1954 | |||
| 82 | Michael Browne | Ireland | 1955–1962 | ||
| 83 | Aniceto Fernández Alonso | 1962–1974 | |||
| 84 | Vincent de Couesnongle | France | 1974–1983 | ||
| 85 | Damian Byrne | Ireland | 1983–1992 | ||
| 86 | Timothy Radcliffe | United Kingdom | 1992–2001 | ||
| 87 | Carlos Azpiroz Costa | Argentina | 2001–2010 | ||
| 88 | Bruno Cadoré | France | 2010– |