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William Joseph Levada

His Eminence
William Joseph Levada
Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco
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William Levada
Appointed May 13, 2005
Term ended July 2, 2012
Predecessor Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI)
Successor Gerhard Ludwig Müller
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Orders
Ordination December 20, 1961
by Martin John O’Connor
Consecration May 12, 1983
by Timothy Manning, John Ward, and Juan Alfredo Arzube
Created Cardinal March 24, 2006
by Pope Benedict XVI
Rank Cardinal-Priest ("pro hac vice")
Personal details
Born (1936-06-15) June 15, 1936 (age 80)
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic
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See San Francisco (Emeritus)

William Joseph Levada (born June 15, 1936) is an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From May 2005 until June 2012, he served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Benedict XVI; he was the highest ranking American in the Roman Curia. He was previously the Archbishop of Portland (Oregon) from 1986 to 1995, and then Archbishop of San Francisco from 1995 to 2005. Levada was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006.

The cardinal's resignation as prefect for reasons of age was accepted on Monday, July 2, 2012 (having reached 75 years of age in 2011, the canonical age at which all Catholic bishops must submit an offer of resignation to the Pope). He was succeeded that same day by Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany, who was named an archbishop.

Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the cardinalate as the Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Dominca while Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of Cardinal-Priest ("pro hac vice") on 20 June 2016.

William Joseph Levada was born in Long Beach, California, to Joseph and Lorraine (née Nunez) Levada, both natives of Concord, California. His older sister, Dolores, died on May 21, 2007.

His great-grandparents came from Portugal and Ireland, and emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1860s. He grew up in Long Beach and Houston, Texas, attended St. Anthony High School Long Beach and then St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. At St. Anthony High School, his classmate was George Hugh Niederauer, later his successor as archbishop of San Francisco.


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