Theodore McCarrick

His Eminence Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick speaking at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
See	Washington
Appointed	November 21, 2000
Installed	January 3, 2001
Term ended	May 16, 2006
Predecessor	James Aloysius Hickey
Successor	Donald Wuerl
Other posts	Cardinal Priest of Ss. Nerei et Achillei
Orders
Ordination	May 31, 1958 by Francis Spellman
Consecration	June 29, 1977 by Terence Cooke
Created Cardinal	February 21, 2001 by John Paul II
Rank	Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born	(1930-07-07) 7 July 1930 (age 87) New York, New York
Previous post	Ecclesiastical Superior of Turks and Caicos (1998–2000) Archbishop of Newark (1986–2000) Bishop of Metuchen (1981–86) Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1977–81)
Motto	Come Lord Jesus

Styles of Theodore Edgar McCarrick

Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Washington (Emeritus)

Ordination history of
Theodore Edgar McCarrick

Information

Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Terence Cooke
Date of consecration	June 29, 1977
Bishops consecrated by Theodore Edgar McCarrick as principal consecrator
John Mortimer Smith	January 25, 1988
James Thomas McHugh	January 25, 1988
Michael Angelo Saltarelli	July 30, 1990
Charles James McDonnell	March 12, 1994
João José Burke	May 25, 1995
Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio	October 31, 1996
Paul Gregory Bootkoski	September 5, 1997
Vincent DePaul Breen	September 8, 1997
Arthur Joseph Serratelli	September 8, 2000
Francisco González Valer	February 11, 2002
Kevin Joseph Farrell	February 11, 2002
Martin D. Holley	July 2, 2004

Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.

An only child, McCarrick was born in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick. His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old, and his mother then worked at a car factory in the Bronx. As a child, McCarrick served as an altar boy at the Church of the Incarnation in Washington Heights.

After attending Fordham Preparatory School, he studied in Switzerland for a year before returning to the United States and attending Fordham University. McCarrick later entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, from where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in philosophy (1954) and a Master's in history (1958).