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East County's Salvatore Cordileone to become Archbishop of San Francisco.
On July 27, 2012, Pope Benedict named Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco. The appointment of Cordileone, and the acceptance of the resignation of his predecessor, Archbishop Niederauer were both announced on July 27 in Washington, D.C., by Archbishop Vigano.
Cordileone will be installed on October 4, 2012, the patronal Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in san Francisco, Ca. Until that time, he continues to serve as bishop of Oakland, with the rights and obligations of a diocesan Administrator
Salvatore Cordileone was born in San Diego and attended Crawford High School from 1971 to 1974. He then studied at SDSU for a year before entering USD, from where he obtained a BA in Philosophy in 1978. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a BA in Sacred Theology in 1981.
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Returning to the United States, Cordileone was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Leo Thomas Maher on July 9, 1982. He then served as an associate pastor at Saint Martin of Tours Parish in La Mesa until 1985, whence he returned to the Gregorian and received a doctorate in Canon Law in 1989. Cordileone, upon his return to the Diocese of San Diego, served as secretary to Bishop Robert
Brom and a tribunal judge (1989–1990), adjutant judicial vicar (1990–1991), and pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Calexico (1991–1995)
In the summer of 1995, he returned to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican under the pope. He was raised to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness in 1999.
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On July 5, 2002, Cordileone was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego and Titular Bishop of Natchesium by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on August 21, 2002 from Bishop Robert H. Brom, with Bishops
Raymond Burke and Gilbert Espinosa Chávez serving as co-consecrators.
Cordileone was later named the fourth Bishop of Oakland by Pope Benedict
XVI on March 23, 2009.
Italian surname "Cor diLeone" means "Heart of Lion". His motto: In Verbo Tuo" (In Thy Word).
