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On March 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Cordileone as the fourth Bishop of Oakland. His Mass of Installation was celebrated on May 5, 2009 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland. Three years later, on July 27, 2012, he was appointed the Archbishop of San Francisco and was installed on October 4, 2012, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.
As the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province of San Francisco, Archbishop Cordileone received the pallium from Pope Francis in Rome on June 29, 2013.
Archbishop Cordileone serves as Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth and is also a member of the Administrative Committee of the USCCB and a member of the Committee for Canonical Affairs and Church Governance. He was formerly chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, and was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. The Archbishop serves on a number of boards, including Catholic Benefits Association/Catholic Insurance Company, Cross Catholic Outreach, and the Governing Board of the International Theological Institute, in Trumau, Austria.
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Cover Photo: Archbishop Cordileone presides over the Mass of the Americas on November 16, 2019 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (photo: Jeffrey Bruno / Archdiocese of San Francisco)