JESUIT
GENERALS
(Black Popes)
LISTING
OF ALL JESUIT GENERALS
FROM
ORIGIN TO PRESENT
1. Ignatius
Loyola, 1 April 1541 - 31 July 1556
(65)
2. Diego Laynez,
2 July 1558 - 10 Jan 1565 (53)
3. Frances
Borgia, 2 July 1565 - 1 Oct 1572
(62)
4. Everard
Mercurian, 23 April 1573 - 1 Aug
1580 (?)
5. Claudius
Aquaviva, 19 Feb 1581 - 31 Jan 1615
(72)
6. Mutius
Vitelleschi, 15 Nov 1615 - 9 Feb
1645 (82)
7. Vincent
Caraffa, 7 Jan 1646 - 8 Jun 1649
(65)
8. Frances
Piccolimini, 21 Dec 1649 - 17 Jun
1651 (69)
9. Alexander
Goottifred, 21 Jan 1652 - 13 Mar
1652 (58)
10. Goswin
Nickel, 17 Mar 1652 - 31 July 1664
(82)
11. John Paul
Olivia, elected Vicarius Generalis
perpetuus cum
jure succedendi 7
Junii 1661, was immediately invested with
the government of the society at Nickel's death.
Died: 6 Nov 1681 (81).
12. Charles de
Noyelle, 5 July 1682 - 12 Dec 1686
13. Thyrsus
Gonzales, 6 July 1687 - 19 Nov 1705
(78)
14. Michelangelo
Tamburini, 31 Jan 1706 - 28 Feb
1730
15. Frances Retz,
30 Nov 1730 - 19 Nov 1750 (78)
16. Ignatius
Viconti, 4 July 1751 - 4 May 1755
17. Luigi
Aloysius Centurioni, 30 Nov 1755 -
2 Oct 1757
18. Lorenzo
Ricci, 21 May 1758 - 24 Nov 1775
(72)
19. Stanislaus
Czerniewicz, permitted, by Catherine the Great,
to reign for life as "Superior General for Russia",
17 Oct 1782 - 21 Oct 1785 (57)
20. Gabriel
Lenkiewisz, 8 Oct 1785 - 21 Oct
1798 (77)
21. Frances
Karew, 12 Feb 1799 - 4 Aug 1802
(71)
22. Gabriel
Gruber, 22 Oct 1802 - 6 April 1805
(67)
23. Thaddeus
Brzozowski, elected 1805, served as head of the
whole society when restored 7
Aug 1814 by the Bull of
Pope Pius VII Solicitudo omnium
Ecclesiarum, never allowed
to leave Russia, he remained there until his death 5 Feb 1820.
24. Aloysius
Fortis, 18 Oct 1820 - 29 Jan 1829
(81)
25. John
Roothaan, 1829 - 1853
26. Pieter Jean
Beckx, 1853 - 1887
27. Ludovico
Martin, 1892 - 1901
28. Franz Xavier
Wernz, 1907 - 1914
29. Vladimir
Ledochowski, 1915 - 1942
30. Jean-Baptiste
Janssens, 1946 - 1964
31. Pedro Arrupe,
1965 - 1981(removed by Pope John Paul II)
32. Paolo Dezza,
Giuseppe Pittau, 1981 -
1983(appointed by
John Paul II)
33. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, 1983 - to present