Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Montevideo (Uruguay), was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) on 4 July 1959.  He obtained a bachelor’s degree in civil law from the Juan XXIII Institute and studied philosophy and pedagogy at the Msgr. Mariano Soler Theological Institute of Uruguay, where he obtained a licentiate in theology in 2006.

He entered the Salesian Institute of the Province of Uruguay at the end of the 1970s, entered the novitiate in 1979 and made his first religious profession on 31 January 1980.

He was ordained a priest of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales on 21 November 1987.

He has served as vicar of the Salesian novitiate and post-novitiate, director of the Salesian Aspirantate and master of novices, Director of the Juan XXIII Pre-University Institute and professor of church history.

On 28 October 2008, he was appointed Salesian Inspector in Uruguay and subsequently elected President of the Conference of Religious of Uruguay.

On 10 December 2011, Pope Benedict XVI assigned him the Titular See of Phelbes and named him Auxiliary of Montevideo.

On 11 February 2014 Pope Francis named him Metropolitan Archbishop of Montevideo.  He was consecrated a bishop on 4 March 2012.

Appointed by Pope Francis, he participated in the Ordinary General Assembly on “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and the Modern World” (October 2015).

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 14 February 2015, and was assigned the titular church Santa Galla.

Member of:

• Dicasteries: for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; for Bishops.
• The Pontifical Commission for Latin America.