List of Cardinal protectors of Scotland

This is a list of Cardinal protectors of Scotland. Protectors represented the interests of a particular religious institution or nation at the Papal court. This particular office was revitalised upon the establishment of the Scots College in Rome by Pope Clement VIII on 5 December 1600, when it was put under the authority of Cardinal Camillo Borghese. The last Cardinal to hold the office died in 1970.

Pre-Reformation

 * Antonio Pallavicini Gentili, 1504–07
 * Pietro Accolti, 1514–32
 * Benedetto Accolti, 1532–38
 * Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, 1538–49
 * Giovanni Domenico de Cupis, 1550–53
 * Niccolò Caetani, 1570–85

Post-Reformation

 * Camillo Borghese, 1600–05
 * Maffeo Barberini, 1607/8–23
 * Francesco Barberini, 1623–79
 * Philip Howard, 1680–94
 * Alessandro Caprara, 1694–1706
 * Giuseppe Sacripante, 1706–27
 * Alessandro Falconieri, 1727–34
 * Domenico Rivera, 1734–52
 * Giuseppe Spinelli, 1753–63
 * Gian Francesco Albani, 1763–73; 1780–1803
 * Mario Marefoschi, 1773–74
 * Francesco Carafa, 1774–80
 * Charles Erskine, 1803–11
 * Bartolomeo Pacca, 1811–35
 * Giacomo Filippo Fransoni, 1835–56
 * Alessandro Barnabò, 1856–74
 * Alessandro Franchi, 1874–78
 * Giovanni Simeoni, 1878–92
 * Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, 1892–1902
 * Girolamo Maria Gotti, 1902–16
 * Domenico Serafini, 1916–18
 * Gaetano de Lai, 1918–28
 * Rafael Merry del Val, 1928–30
 * Franz Ehrle, 1930–34
 * Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, 1934–51
 * Giuseppe Pizzardo, 1951–70