Appointment of prefect and pro-prefect of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life
Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Washington, U.S.A.
Appointment of prefect and pro-prefect of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life
The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Sr. Simona Brambilla, M.C., until now secretary of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, as prefect of the same Curial Institution.
The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B., former rector major of the Salesian Society of Saint John Bosco, as pro-prefect of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life.
Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Washington, U.S.A.
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Washington, United States of America, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Wilton Daniel Gregory.
The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy as metropolitan archbishop of Washington, United States of America, transferring him from the diocese of San Diego, California, United States of America.
Curriculum vitae
His Eminence Cardinal Robert McElroy was born on 5 February 1954 in San Francisco, California, in the archdiocese of the same name. After attending Saint Joseph Minor Seminary, he obtained a bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. After completing his ecclesiastical studies at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, he was awarded a doctorate in moral theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and a doctorate in political sciences from Stanford University.
He was ordained a priest on 12 April 1980 for the metropolitan archdiocese of San Francisco.
He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Saint Cecilia in San Francisco (1980-1982), personal secretary to the archbishop, and master of ceremonies (1987-1985), parish vicar of Saint Pius in Redwood City (1989-1995), vicar general (1995-1997), parish priest of Saint Gregory in San Mateo and archdiocesan consultor (1997-2010). He was appointed titular bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena and auxiliary of San Francisco on 6 July 2010, and received episcopal consecration on the following 7 September. He was appointed bishop of the diocese of San Diego on 3 March 2015. He was created cardinal by Pope Francis in the consistory of 27 August 2022.