He was appointed to the honorary position of assistant at the pontifical throne on 19 June 1891.

He served as vicar general of the archdiocese, and was named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on March 30, 1947.

He was also named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne and in 1955 a Count of the Apostolic Palace.

In 1935 he was appointed an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XI.

He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of the esteemed Cardinal James Gibbons, and was appointed an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on June 28, 1921.

The pallium was conferred on Archbishop Purcell by Pope Pius IX, who at the same time made him assistant at the pontifical throne, in appreciation of his personal worth.

Archbishop Bégin was appointed an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on the following April 22, and participated in the First Plenary Council of Canada in June 1909.

In June 1946, he was named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XII on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his priestly ordination.

In 1939, he founded Central Catholic High School in Portland and was named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XII in 1939.

He resigned as bishop on July 8, 1922, at which time he was named titular bishop of Bita and an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XI.

Just over one month after his ordination to the priesthood, Pierluigi was elected titular archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia on March 27, 1713 and then made an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on April 16, 1713.

He was later named named Titular Archbishop of Thebae and Privy Almoner of His Holiness on 6 December 1916, and an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on 9 December of that same year.

He was given the title of Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on August 24, 1882, and named Bishop of Padua on September 25 of that same year, whilst retaining the administration of Treviso until the appointment of his successor.

In June 1965, he was named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Paul VI for "establishing numerous parishes, opening many parochial schools and admitting the laity to active participation in the apostolate of the sacred ecclesiastical hierarchy."

In July 1933, in the same month as he was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire, an assistant at the pontifical throne and a companion to Pius XI, Andrew Killian was appointed to serve as Spence's coadjutor.

After becoming an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on June 19, 1922, Touchet was created Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of December 11 of that same year.