The Council of Cardinal Advisers, formally the Council of Cardinals, is a group of nine Roman Catholic cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to serve as advisers to the Pontiff exactly one month after his election, 13 April 2013. The council was formally established on 28 September by a chirograph.^[1][2]

• Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga SDB, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (coordinator)
• Marcello Semeraro, Bishop of Albano (secretary)
• Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State
• Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Archbishop-Emeritus of Santigo de Chile
• Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay
• Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
• Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa
• Seán Patrick O'Malley OFM Cap, Archbishop of Boston
• George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy
• Pietro Parolin, cardinal, Secretary of State

The group is coordinated by Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga.^[3] The secretary of the group is Marcello Semeraro, Bishop of Albano. The Italian cardinal Pietro Parolin, from the Vatican Secretary of State was appointed by Pope Francis and became the ninth member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers in July 2014.