The Dean of the Roman Rota (''Decanus Rotæ Romanæ'') is the senior

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or of the

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, the last instance appellate tribunal of the

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. On 30 March 2021,

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

appointed Msgr. Alejandro Arellano Cedillo to the office. Since 12 December 2016, the pro-

dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...

has been Maurice Monier.

Chronological list of deans

* Séraphin Olivier-Razali ( 1590 – 1602) *

Girolamo Pamphili Girolamo is an Italian variant of the name Hieronymus. Its English equivalent is Jerome. It may refer to: * Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler * Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – after ...

( 1604) *

Francisco Peña Francisco Peña (Pegna) (born at Villarroya de los Pinares, near Saragossa, about 1540; died at Rome, in 1612) was a Spanish canon lawyer. Life He devoted himself to the study of law at Valencia. Later Philip II of Spain appointed him auditor ...

(1604 – 1610) * Joannis Baptista Coccini ( 1623) * Carlo Cerri (1669–1670) * Jakob de Mathiis Emerix ( 1686) * Curzio Origo ( 1711) * Carlo Leopoldo Calcagnini (1734–1744) * Mario Millini ( 1744) * Giovanni Maria Riminaldi ( 1780 — 1785) * Alphonse-Hubert de Latier de Bayane ( 1802) * Francesco Cesare Leoni (1802–1804) * Francesco Serlupi-Crescenzi (1817–1823) *

Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard (23 October 1766 – 7 October 1839)Alessandro Spada ( 1830) * Cosimo Corsi ( 1842) * Giuseppe Bofondi (24 January 1842 — 1846) *

Pietro de Silvestri Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II C ...

( 1850 — March 15 1858) *

Michele Lega Michele Lega S.T.D. J.U.D. (1 January 1860 – 16 December 1935) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Discipline of Sacraments. Early life and priesthood Michele Lega was born on 1 J ...

(20 October 1908 — 25 May 1914) * Guglielmo Sebastianelli (1914–1920) * Serafino Many (1920–1921) * Giovanni Prior ( 1921 — 28 April 1926) *

Massimo Massimi Massimo Massimi (10 April 1877 – 6 March 1954) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in the Roman Curia from 1946 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ...

(1 May 1926 — 16 December 1935) * Giulio Grazioli (1936 — 30 October 1944) * André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien (30 October 1944 — 15 December 1958) *

William Theodore Heard William Theodore Heard (24 February 1884 – 16 September 1973) was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Life He was born in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Rev Dr William Augustus Heard (1847–1921), a housemaster of Fettes College, and ...

(15 December 1958 — 14 December 1959) * Francis John Brennan (14 December 1959 — 10 June 1967) * Bolesław Filipiak (26 June 1967 — 24 May 1976) * Charles Lefebvre (1976–1978) * Heinrich Ewers (1978 — 28 January 1982) * Arturo De Jorio (28 January 1982 — 1985) * Ernesto Maria Fiore (6 June 1985 — 2 July 1993) *

Mario Francesco Pompedda Carlo Mario Francesco Pompedda (18 April 1929 – 18 October 2006) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura for the Roman Curia. He spent nearly fifty years in a variety of posts within th ...

(11 September 1993 — 16 November 1999) *

Raffaello Funghini Raffaello Funghini (January 1, 1929 - May 17, 2006) was an Italian catholic clergyman and jurist who was Dean of the Roman Rota and thus, from 2004 to his death, president of the Holy See's Court of Appeals. He was born in Castiglion Fiorentino in t ...

(11 December 1999 — 31 January 2004) *

Antoni Stankiewicz Antoni Stankiewicz JCD (1 October 1935 – 4 January 2021) was a Polish Roman Catholic Bishop and Dean Emeritus of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. He was born in Oleszczenice near Wilno, Poland (now Lithuania). He studied for and was ordained t ...

(31 January 2004 — 22 September 2012); retired * Pio Vito Pinto (22 September 2012 — 29 March 2021); also appointed President of the Court of Appeal of the State of Vatican City on 10 December 2012 * Maurice Monier (Pro-Dean, 12 December 2016) * Alejandro Arellano Cedillo (30 March 2021)

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