George Cardinal Pell
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His Eminence George Pell AC |
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| Cardinal, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy | |
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| Church | Latin Church |
| Appointed | 24 February 2014 |
| Predecessor | Position established |
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| Ordination | 16 December 1966 by Gregorio Pietro Agagianian |
| Consecration | 21 May 1987 by Frank Little |
| Created Cardinal | 21 October 2003 by John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Born |
8 June 1941 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
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| Motto |
Nolite Timere Be not afraid |
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Styles of George Pell |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence or My Lord Cardinal |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian cardinal prelate of the Catholic Church. He became the inaugural Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy in 2014. He previously served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996), and Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001). He was created a cardinal in 2003. Ordained in 1966, he has also been an author, columnist, public speaker and sportsman, having been signed by the Richmond Football Club, an Australian Rules Football team, in 1959. Since becoming Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996, he has maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining a strict adherence to Catholic orthodoxy.
Pell studied in Rome, Oxford, and at Monash University and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford and at Cambridge. He worked as a priest in regional Victoria and in Melbourne and has since worked widely in education, in seminaries and the charity sector, chairing the aid organisation Caritas Australia from 1988 to 1997. He has written widely on religious subjects, authoring several books and writing a weekly column in Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph. He received a number of international appointments during the papacy of John Paul II, and was brought to Rome to advise on Vatican City finance and governance issues by Pope Francis. He was appointed as a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998, received the Centenary Medal from the Australian government in 2003, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2005.
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