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Salvatore Cordileone
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born June 5, 1956) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Francisco in California since 2012. He previously served as bishop of Oakland in California from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2002 to 2009.
A traditionalist theologian, he is known for his willingness to celebrate mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Cordileone is also known for his outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
Salvatore Cordileone was born on June 5, 1956, in San Diego, California, and attended Crawford High School from 1971 to 1974. He then studied at San Diego State University for a year before entering the University of San Diego, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1978. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1981.
Returning to California, Cordileone was ordained to the priesthood at Our Mother of Confidence Church in San Diego for the Diocese of San Diego by Bishop Leo Maher on July 9, 1982. After his ordination, the diocese assigned Cordileone as an associate pastor at Saint Martin of Tours Parish in La Mesa, California, until 1985. Cordileone then returned to the Gregorian University, where he earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree in 1989. Back in San Diego, he was appointed as priest 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, California (1991–1995).
In 1995, Cordileone went to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican. The Vatican raised him to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness in 1999.
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 at the Immaculata Church of the University of San Diego on August 21, 2002, from Brom, with Bishops Raymond Burke and Gilbert Espinosa Chávez serving as co-consecrators.
Cordileone serves on the episcopal advisory board of the Institute for Religious Life at University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois and St. Gianna Physician's Guild in San Diego Cordileone is considered to be theologically conservative. At the 2006 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore, in the course of consideration of the document which issued as "Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper" he proposed to the gathered bishops that the use of artificial contraception should be included in a list of thoughts or actions constituting a grave matter. His proposal was defeated, although the bishops approved a separate document saying that "contraception is objectively immoral."
Within the USCCB, Cordileone sat on the Bishops' and Presidents' Committee on Catholic Education from 2006 to 2009.
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Salvatore Cordileone
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born June 5, 1956) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Francisco in California since 2012. He previously served as bishop of Oakland in California from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2002 to 2009.
A traditionalist theologian, he is known for his willingness to celebrate mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Cordileone is also known for his outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
Salvatore Cordileone was born on June 5, 1956, in San Diego, California, and attended Crawford High School from 1971 to 1974. He then studied at San Diego State University for a year before entering the University of San Diego, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1978. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1981.
Returning to California, Cordileone was ordained to the priesthood at Our Mother of Confidence Church in San Diego for the Diocese of San Diego by Bishop Leo Maher on July 9, 1982. After his ordination, the diocese assigned Cordileone as an associate pastor at Saint Martin of Tours Parish in La Mesa, California, until 1985. Cordileone then returned to the Gregorian University, where he earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree in 1989. Back in San Diego, he was appointed as priest 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, California (1991–1995).
In 1995, Cordileone went to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican. The Vatican raised him to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness in 1999.
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 at the Immaculata Church of the University of San Diego on August 21, 2002, from Brom, with Bishops Raymond Burke and Gilbert Espinosa Chávez serving as co-consecrators.
Cordileone serves on the episcopal advisory board of the Institute for Religious Life at University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois and St. Gianna Physician's Guild in San Diego Cordileone is considered to be theologically conservative. At the 2006 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore, in the course of consideration of the document which issued as "Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper" he proposed to the gathered bishops that the use of artificial contraception should be included in a list of thoughts or actions constituting a grave matter. His proposal was defeated, although the bishops approved a separate document saying that "contraception is objectively immoral."
Within the USCCB, Cordileone sat on the Bishops' and Presidents' Committee on Catholic Education from 2006 to 2009.
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