Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City - Daniel Dinardo (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (born May 23, 1949) is an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second and current Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, having previously served as Bishop of Sioux City from 1998 to 2004. DiNardo was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2007. He is the first cardinal archbishop from a diocese in the Southern United States. Daniel DiNardo was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Nicholas and Jane (ne Green) DiNardo. One of four children, he has an older brother, Thomas; a twin sister, Margaret; and a younger sister, Mary Anne. The family later moved to Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. As a child, DiNardo would pretend to celebrate Mass in vestments sewn by his mother and at an altar his father constructed. He attended St. Anne Grade School from 1955 to 1963, and graduated from the Jesuit-run Bishop's Latin School in 1967. He then entered St. Paul Seminary, where he was a classmate of David Zubik (who later became Bishop of Pittsburgh) and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In 1969, DiNardo was awarded the Basselin Scholarship for Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., from where he later obtained a Master's degree in philosophy. He furthered his studies in Rome, earning a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and studying patrology at the Augustinianum. DiNardo was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Vincent Leonard on July 16, 1977. He then served as parochial vicar at St. Pius X Church in Brookline until 1980. In 1981, he was named Assistant Chancellor of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and part-time professor at St. Paul Seminary. While at St. Paul, he served as spiritual director to the seminarians. From 1984 to 1990, DiNardo worke... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2099900