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Daniel N. DiNardo

His Eminence
Daniel Nicholas DiNardo
Cardinal,
Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Archdiocese Galveston-Houston
Appointed
  • January 16, 2004 (Coadjutor Bishop)
  • December 29, 2004 (Coadjutor Archbishop)
Installed
  • March 26, 2004 (Coadjutor Bishop)
  • February 28, 2006 (Archbishop)
Predecessor Joseph Fiorenza
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Orders
Ordination July 16, 1977
by Vincent Martin Leonard
Consecration October 7, 1997
by Lawrence Donald Soens, Donald Wuerl, and Raymond Leo Burke
Created Cardinal November 24, 2007
by Pope Benedict XVI
Rank Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Birth name Daniel Nicholas DiNardo
Born (1949-05-23) May 23, 1949 (age 68)
Steubenville, Ohio
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Motto AVE CRUX SPES UNICA
(HAIL, O CROSS, OUR ONLY HOPE)
Styles of
Daniel Nicholas DiNardo
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Reference style
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal

Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (born May 23, 1949) is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the second and current Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, serving since 2006. He previously served as Bishop of Sioux City from 1998 to 2004. On November 12, 2013, he was elected as the Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. On November 15, 2016, he was elected as the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

DiNardo was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. He is the first cardinal from a diocese in the Southern United States.

Daniel DiNardo was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Nicholas and Jane (née Green) DiNardo. One of four children, he has an older brother, Thomas; a twin sister, Margaret; and a younger sister, Mary Anne. The family later moved to Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. As a child, DiNardo would pretend to celebrate Mass in vestments sewn by his mother and at an altar his father constructed.

He attended St. Anne Elementary School from 1955 to 1963, and graduated from the Jesuit-run Bishop's Latin School in 1967. He then entered St. Paul Seminary, where he was a classmate of David Zubik (who later became Bishop of Pittsburgh) at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In 1969, DiNardo was awarded the Basselin Scholarship for Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., from where he later obtained a Master's degree in philosophy. He furthered his studies in Rome, earning a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and studying Patristics at the Augustinianum.


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