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| Meet the 11 Americans Who Will Help Choose the Next Pope
By Caleb K. Bell
Washington Post
February 13, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/meet-the-11-americans-who-will-help-choose-the-next-pope/2013/02/13/4af063da-7631-11e2-b102-948929030e64_story.html
There will be 11 Americans among the 118 Roman Catholic cardinals who will convene in the Sistine Chapel in mid-March to elect the next pope. They range from leaders of major archdioceses to retired prelates to top officials in the Vatican bureaucracy.
Here’s a look at the American “princes of the church” who will vote for the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics:
Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Age: 64
Born: June 30, 1948 in Richland Center, Wis.
Education: Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome)
Ordained a priest: 1975 in Rome
Posts held: bishop of La Crosse, Wis. (1994-2003); archbishop of St. Louis, Mo. (2004-2008); prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (2008-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI
Daniel N. DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Age: 63
Born: May 23, 1949 in Steubenville, Ohio
Education: Catholic University of America, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh)
Ordained a priest: 1977 in Pittsburgh
Posts held: coadjutor bishop of Sioux City, Iowa (1997-1998); bishop of Sioux City, Iowa (1998-2004); coadjutor archbishop of Galveston-Houston (2004-2006); archbishop of Galveston-Houston (2006-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York
Age: 63
Born: Feb. 6, 1950 in St. Louis
Education: Catholic University of America, Pontifical North American College (Rome), Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome), and Kenrick-Glennon Seminary (Shrewsbury, Mo.)
Ordained a priest: 1976 in St. Louis
Posts held: rector of Pontifical North American College (1994-2001); auxiliary bishop of St. Louis (2001-2002); archbishop of Milwaukee (2002-2009); archbishop of New York (2009-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI
Francis E. George, archbishop of Chicago
Age: 76
Born: Jan. 16, 1937
Education: Catholic University of America, Tulane University (New Orleans) and University of Ottawa
Ordained a priest: 1963 in Chicago
Posts held: bishop of Yakima, Wash. (1990-1996); archbishop of Portland, Ore. (1996-1997); archbishop of Chicago (1997-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 1998 by Pope John Paul II
James M. Harvey, archpriest of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica in Rome
Age: 63
Born: Oct. 20, 1949 in Milwaukee
Education: St. Francis Seminary (St. Francis, Wis.), Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (Rome)
Ordained a priest: 1975 in Rome
Posts held: prefect of Prefecture of the Papal Household (1998-2012); archpriest of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica (2012-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI
William J. Levada, retired
Age: 76
Born: June 15, 1936 in Long Beach, Calif.
Education: St. John’s Seminary (Camarillo, Calif.), Pontifical North American College and Pontifical Gregorian University
Ordained a priest: 1961 in Rome
Posts held: auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles (1983-1986); archbishop of Portland, Ore. (1986-1995); archbishop of San Francisco (1995-2005); prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2005-2012)
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