William Joseph Levada

His Eminence William Joseph Levada
Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco
William Levada
Appointed	May 13, 2005
Term ended	July 2, 2012
Predecessor	Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI)
Successor	Gerhard Ludwig Müller
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest ("pro hac vice") of Santa Maria in Domnica
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
Previous post	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles and Titular Bishop of Capreae (1983–1986) Roman Catholic Archbishop of Portland (1986–1995) Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco (1995–2005) Apostolic Administrator of Santa Rosa in California (1999–2000) President of the International Theological Commission (2005–2012) President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission(2005–2012) President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” (2009–2012)
Motto	Fratres in Unum

Styles of William Joseph Levada

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

Ordination history of William Levada
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Timothy Card. Manning (LA)
Date of consecration	May 23, 1983
Bishops consecrated by William Levada as principal consecrator
Tod David Brown	April 3, 1989
Alexander Joseph Brunett	July 6, 1994
John Charles Wester	September 18, 1998
Joseph A. Pepe	May 31, 2001
Ignatius Chung Wang	January 30, 2003
Clarence Richard Silva	July 21, 2005
Joseph Augustine Di Noia OP	July 11, 2009

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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