Donald William Wuerl
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His Eminence Donald William Wuerl |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington | |
Cardinal Wuerl
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| Archdiocese | Washington |
| Appointed | May 16, 2006 |
| Installed | June 22, 2006 |
| Predecessor | Theodore Edgar McCarrick |
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Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli Chancellor of the Catholic University of America |
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| Ordination | December 17, 1966 by Francis Frederick Reh |
| Consecration | January 6, 1986 by John Paul II, Agostino Casaroli, and Bernardin Gantin |
| Created Cardinal | November 20, 2010 by Benedict XVI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Donald William Wuerl |
| Born |
November 12, 1940 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | THY KINGDOM COME |
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Styles of Donald William Wuerl |
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| Reference style | |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| Ordination history of Donald Wuerl | |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | John Paul II |
| Date of consecration | January 6, 1986 |
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Bishops consecrated by Donald Wuerl as principal consecrator
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| William J. Winter | February 13, 1989 |
| Thomas Joseph Tobin | December 27, 1992 |
| David Zubik | April 6, 1997 |
| Paul J. Bradley | February 2, 2005 |
| Herbert Bevard | September 3, 2008 |
| Barry Christopher Knestout | December 29, 2008 |
| Mario E. Dorsonville | April 20, 2015 |
Donald William Wuerl (born November 12, 1940) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the sixth Archbishop of Washington, serving since 2006. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle (1986–87) and Bishop of Pittsburgh (1988–2006). He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.
Donald Wuerl was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the second of four children of Francis and Mary Anna (née Schiffauer) Wuerl. He has two brothers, Wayne and Dennis, and a sister, Carol. His father worked nights weighing freight cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and served in the Navy during World War II. His mother died in 1944, and his father married Kathryn Cavanaugh in 1946.
Wuerl received his early education at the parochial school of St. Mary of the Mount Church in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1958. He then attended the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was a Basselin Scholar at Theological College, earning a bachelor's degree (1962) and master's degree (1963) in philosophy.
He continued his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He earned a master's degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1967. After ordination, Wuerl was sent to Rome for further theological study. He is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum where he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1974.
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