OAKLAND BISHOP APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO............

The Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, currently ministering as the Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, California; was appointed today by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, as the ninth and next Archbishop of San Francisco.  Archbishop-elect Cordileone, a native of San Diego, California was born June 5, 1956.  A 1978 graduate of the University of San Diego, as a seminarian he studied at the North American College and Gregorian University, in Rome; and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of San Diego, thirty years ago this month by Bishop Leo T. Maher.  After serving three years as an Associate Pastor in a La Mesa, California parish; he returned to Rome and completed a Doctorate in Canon Law.  Returning to the San Diego Diocese in 1991, he served in the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal, while also ministering as Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, in Calexico; on the California / Mexico border.  Being fluent in Spanish, as Pastor he worked very closely with his parish's Hispanic community and helped immigrants and labor union workers with the issues facing them.  For seven years beginning in 1995, the Archbishop-elect returned to Rome, to serve as an assistant in the Vatican's highest judicial court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.  In the summer of 2002, Pope John Paul II, appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, and he was ordained to the Episcopacy, by San Diego Bishop Robert Brom, on August 21, 2002.  On May 6, 2009, Auxiliary Bishop Cordileone was installed as Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, from where today he has been appointed as the 9th Archbishop of San Francisco, to be installed in the Metropolitan See of the Archdiocese and its three counties (San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin) on the Feast of St. Francis Assisi, October 4, 2012, in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, in San Francisco............Fr.  Troy