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Order in College: |
Cardinal Priest |
| With Title:
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S. Bartolomeo all'Isola |
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Native Country: |
USA |
| Appointed by:
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John Paul II
on 21 February 1998 |
| Ecclesiastical
Office:
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Archbishop of Chicago |
| Papal Elector:
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Eligible;
Ineligible on
16 January 2017 |
Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I., was born on January 16, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois. He was ordained a priest on December 21, 1963. From 1973 until 1974, he served as the provincial for the central region of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and he was the vicar general from 1974 to 1986. On September 21, 1990, he was ordained bishop of Yakima. He was appointed archbishop of Portland, Oregon, on April 30, 1996, and installed on May 27, 1996. He was then appointed archbishop of Chicago on April 8, 1997, and installed on May 7, 1997. On February 21, 1998, he was created a cardinal. His titular church is St. Bartholomew on the Tiber Island. He continues to serve as Archbishop of Chicago. In the Roman Curia, he serves in the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Congregation for Oriental Churches, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the council Cor Unum, and the Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church. |
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