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TheSacred Congregation of Ceremonies was adicastery of theRoman Curia that was charged with the direction of all papal ceremonies as well as of the ceremonial of cardinals.

The congregation was established byPope Sixtus V.^[1] It also communicated instructions to thelegates of theHoly See for the maintenance of due decorum in transacting the affairs of their missions. This congregation also instructed the members of theNoble Guard and theablegate who were sent to convey to new cardinals, living in Catholic states outside ofRome, the news of their promotion, together with the cardinal's hat and the redbiretta. It instructed newly promoted cardinals, too, on theetiquette to be followed conformably with their new dignity. Finally, it solved the questions ofprecedence which arose among cardinals or among ambassadors to the Holy See.

It was dissolved in 1967 in the Curial reforms byPope Paul VI.

• Carlo Sacconi (28 Mar 1884 – 25 Feb 1889)
• Raffaele Monaco La Valletta (1 Mar 1889 – 14 Jul 1896)
• Serafino Vannutelli (14 Mar 1889 – 19 Aug 1915)
• Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (1897 – 7 Dec 1913)
• Vincenzo Vannutelli (15 Dec 1914 – 9 Jul 1930)
• Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (14 Jul 1930 – 16 Feb 1948)
• Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (5 Feb 1948 – 13 Jan 1951)
• Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (10 Mar 1951 – 1967)

• Günther Wassilowsky [de],Hubert Wolf:Päpstliches Zeremoniell in der Frühen Neuzeit – Das Diarium des Zeremonienmeisters Paolo Alaleone de Branca während des Pontifikats Gregors XV. (1621–1623). Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2007,ISBN 978-3-930454-80-8 (with the complete original Latin text of the diarium)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "The Roman Congregations".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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