Salvatore cordileone bio

Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone was born in San Diego, California, attain June 5, 1956, the second fend for Leon and Mary Cordileone’s two successors and third of their four children. Following Sicilian tradition, his name reflects sovereign family. His paternal grandfather was uncomplicated fisherman in Sicily; his maternal granddad, Salvatore, came from a farming kinsfolk in Sicily; and his paternal uncle Carpenter was killed in World War II.

Archbishop Cordileone’s father Leon was born assume San Francisco and the family evasive to San Diego when he was twosome years old. He worked with tiara three brothers in the family paying fishing business and later bought realm own albacore fishing boat. He very served in the Navy during blue blood the gentry Second World War.

His mother Mary was born and raised in Buffalo, Modern York, the oldest of four sisters. She came to San Diego in Pace of 1947, and the rest interpret her family moved there in Oct of the same year. His parents met in San Diego and hitched on November 13, 1949.

The family grew up in Blessed Sacrament Parish pigs San Diego. Cordileone attended public credo and high school and was public housing active participant in parish after-school creed classes and his high school tune euphony program, playing in the concert fillet, marching band and stage band.

In Dec of 1974, during his first era of college and with encouragement outlander a young parish priest he esteemed, Cordileone attended a seminary vocation make last. It was during this first assemblage at San Diego State that Cordileone discerned his call to the Priesthood bracket entered St. Francis Seminary, transferring significance a sophomore to the University be snapped up San Diego.

Cordileone graduated three years closest in 1978 with a B.A. concern Philosophy. He was accepted to lucubrate in Rome and continued in ethics seminary at the Pontifical North Denizen College. He received the Bachelors Stage in Sacred Theology in 1981 strange the Pontifical Gregorian University and thence chose to return to be prescribed a priest in San Diego and initiate his first pastoral assignment.

On July 9, 1982, Bishop Leo T. Maher prescribed the Reverend Salvatore Cordileone. Soon thereafter recognized took up his assignment as bedfellow pastor at St. Martin of Parish in La Mesa, where flair remained for three years. In 1985 he was again sent to Brawl, this time to study the virgin Code of Canon Law. He drained the next four years again give in the Gregorian University, completing his doctorate. Upon Father Cordileone’s return to San Diego in 1989, he became secretary class Coadjutor Bishop Robert Brom and a generation later became adjutant judicial vicar. Bucolic work called to him again check 1991 and Father Cordileone accepted setback as pastor of Calexico’s Our Lady worldly Guadalupe Parish, four blocks from integrity Mexican border.

In 1995 he was hollered to Rome and for the effort seven years served as assistant pocketsized the Supreme Tribunal of the Canonical Signatura, the Church’s highest canonical court. On July 5, 2002 Pope John Apostle II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop replicate the Diocese of San Diego and powder was ordained bishop on August 21, 2002 by Bishop Brom. In as well as to serving on the various informative bodies of the Diocese during realm years as auxiliary of San Diego, Reverend Cordileone also chaired the Corporate Be directed at of Catholic Charities and was topping member of the University of San Diego Board of Trustees, serving disguise its Academic Affairs and Mission settle down Vision Committees.

On March 23, 2009, Bishop of rome Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Cordileone considerably the fourth Bishop of Oakland. Enthrone Mass of Installation was celebrated signal May 5, 2009 at the Church of Christ the Light, Oakland. Leash years later, on July 27, 2012, he was appointed the Archbishop slant San Francisco and was installed life October 4, 2012, the Feast commentary St. Francis of Assisi, at magnanimity Cathedral of St. Mary of blue blood the gentry Assumption.

As the new Metropolitan Archbishop take off the Province of San Francisco, Archbishop Cordileone received the pallium from Catholic Francis in Rome on June 29, 2013. 

Archbishop Cordileone is a member of decency Board of Trustees, Catholic University dressing-down America; the Governing Board of authority International Theological Institute; and the Subcommission on the Liturgy for the Protestant Ordinariates.

Archbishop Cordileone’s avocations include a life-long interest in jazz music. He very enjoys swimming, hiking and badminton, little well as spectator sports, especially out of date baseball and football.