List chief rabbis of France

In 1808, Napoleon 1 {{er}}, examining the possibility of granting the emancipation to the Jews of France, convenes an assembly, which it names the Grand Sanhédrin, by analogy with the Sanhédrin, legislative Jewish institution abolished at the first centuries of the common era. With the head of this one the Rabbin David Sintzheim is, that Napoleon names minister of religion, person in charge of the other officiants, governed by the Central Consistoire, on the model of the Church. David Sintzheim is named by it the first Large-Rabbi .

The list of the Large-rabbis of 1808 to our days is the following one:

1808 - 1812 David Sintzheim. The Central Consistoire lately created named it Chief rabbi of the Central Consistory, just as Abraham Vita de Cologna then EM Deutz.
1808 - 1826 Abraham Vita de Cologna
1810 - 1845 EM Deutz
1846 - 1852 Commercial In
1853 - 1865 Solomon Ullmann
1866 - 1888 Lazare Isidor
1889 - 1905 Zadoc Kahn
1907 - 1919 Alfred Levy
1920 - 1939 Israel Lévi
1939 - 1952 Isaïe Schwartz
1955 - 1980 Jacob Kaplan
1980 - 1987 Rene-Samuel Sirat (first Large-Rabbi Séfarade)
Since 1987 Joseph Sitruk

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