April 2016, the community of the Scots College were granted a private audience with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace to mark the 400th anniversary of its becoming a seminary. In 2017, seminarians from the college were invited to serve at the Easter Vigil at St. Peter's Basilica. After a 2020 review projected unaffordable upgrade costs for the Via Cassia seminary, the Scottish Bishops announced a plan to relocate to a more central location in Rome beginning in 2021. Rectors Bernardino Paolini (1600-1615) Patrick Anderson SJ (1615) Carlo Venozzi SJ (1615-1619) Giovanni Marietti SJ (1619-1622) George Elphinstone SJ (1622-1644) William Christie SJ (1644-1646) Francis Dempster SJ (1646-1649) Andrew Leslie SJ (1649-1652) Adam Gordon SJ (1652-1655) Gilbert Talbot SJ (1655-1658) Francis Dempster SJ (1658-1663) Gilbert Talbot SJ (1663-1670) John Strachan SJ (1670-1671) Hector de Marini SJ (1671-1674) William Lesie SJ (1674-1683) Andrew MacGhie SJ (1683-1690) William Lesie SJ (1692-1695) James Forbes SJ (1695-1701) Diego Calcagni SJ (1701-1704) Giovanni Naselli SJ (1704-1708) Thomas Fyfe SJ (1708-1712) William Clark SJ (1712-1721) Alexander Ferguson SJ (1721-1724) Luca Gritta SJ (1724-1729) Francisco Marini SJ (1729-1731) Giovanni Morici SJ (1731-1738) Livio Urbani SJ (1738-1747) Lorenzo Alticozzi SJ (1747-1766) Giovanni Corsedoni SJ (1766-1773) Vincenzo Massa (1773-1773) Lorenzo Antonini (1773-1774) Alessandro Marzi (1774-1777) Ignazio Ceci (1777-1781) Francisco Marchioni (1781-1798) Rev. Paul MacPherson (1800-1826) Rev. Angus MacDonald (1826-1833) Rev. Paul MacPherson (1833-1846) Rev. Alexander Grant (1846-1878) Rev. James Campbell (1878-1897) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Robert Fraser (1897-1913) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Donald Mackintosh (1913-1922) Rt. Rev. Mgr. William Canon Clapperton (1922-1960) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Philip Flanagan (1960-1967) Rev. Daniel P. Boyle (1967-1973) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Sean O'Kelly (1973-1981) Rt. Rev. Mgr. James Clancy (1981-1986) Rev. John Fitzsimmons (1986-1989) Rt. Rev. Mgr. John McIntyre (1989-1995) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Christopher J. McElroy (1995-2004) Rt. Rev. Mgr. Philip Tartaglia (2004-2005) Rev. Paul Milarvie (2005-2009) Rt. Rev. Mgr. John Hughes (2009-2015) Very Rev. Daniel Fitzpatrick (2015-2022) Very Rev. Mark Canon Cassidy (2022-present) Notable alumni Alexander Dunbar Winchester (1625–1708), Apostolic Prefect for Scotland George Hay (1729–1811), served as Vicar Apostolic of the Lowland District in Scotland from 1778 until 1805 John Paul Jameson (d. 1700), entered the college in 1677, ordained priest in 1685 Wilhelm von Leslie (1657–1727), Prince Bishop of Laibach, entered the College in 1675, ordained priest in 1681 Charles Erskine (1739-1811), Cardinal and Vatican diplomat Aeneas Chisholm (1836-1918), Bishop of Aberdeen from 1899 until 1918 Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), better known as Baron Corvo,