27 Facts About Salvatore Cordileone

Salvatore Joseph Cordileone was born on June 5,1956 and is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Francisco since 2012.

Salvatore Cordileone previously served as Bishop of Oakland from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego from 2002 to 2009.

Salvatore Cordileone was born on June 5,1956, in San Diego, California, and attended Crawford High School from 1971 to 1974.

Salvatore Cordileone 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.

Salvatore Cordileone then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1981.

Salvatore Cordileone then returned to the Gregorian University, where he earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree in 1989.

In 1995, Salvatore Cordileone went to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican.

On July 5,2002, Salvatore Cordileone was appointed as auxiliary bishop of San Diego and titular bishop of Natchesium by Pope John Paul II.

Salvatore Cordileone received his episcopal consecration on August 21,2002, from Brom, with Bishops Raymond Burke and Gilbert Espinosa Chavez serving as co-consecrators.

Salvatore 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 Salvatore Cordileone is considered to be theologically conservative.

Salvatore Cordileone was named the fourth bishop of Oakland by Pope Benedict XVI on March 23,2009.

Salvatore Cordileone was installed on May 5,2009, at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland.

In September 2009, Salvatore Cordileone offered a pontifical high mass at Saint Margaret Mary Church in Oakland.

From 2011 to 2017, Salvatore Cordileone served as chair of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, working against the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Salvatore Cordileone was installed on October 4,2012, at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco.

Shortly before his installation as archbishop, on August 26,2012, Salvatore Cordileone was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at a police checkpoint in San Diego.

Salvatore Cordileone was scheduled to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence.

Salvatore Cordileone was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay a fine.

In February 2015, Salvatore Cordileone told archdiocesan school teachers that they were expected to conduct their public lives in a way that did not undermine or deny Catholic doctrine.

The letter urged Salvatore Cordileone to withdraw what they called "discriminatory morality clauses".

Salvatore Cordileone raised substantial sums to campaign for the amendment.

In 2009, Salvatore Cordileone was one of 17 bishops in the United States to sign the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.

Salvatore Cordileone was a featured speaker in the June 2014 March for Marriage in Washington DC, which was attended by several hundred protestors.

Salvatore Cordileone had previously objected to Pelosi in 2021 calling herself as a "devout Catholic" during a news conference.

Salvatore Cordileone claimed that Pelosi has refused to communicate with him since her decision to support the Women's Health Protection Act in September 2021.

Salvatore Cordileone advised Catholics to get vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019 to 2023.

The coat of arms chosen by Salvatore Cordileone has two sections.