MOST REV. SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE
Archbishop of San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was born in San Diego on June 5, 1956. He attended public school through 12th grade and earned his BA in philosophy from the University of San Diego in 1978. He earned a second bachelor’s degree in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1981. Archbishop Cordileone was ordained to the priesthood on July 9, 1982. He continued his studies at Gregorian University from 1985-89, earning a doctorate in canon law.
He was appointed Judicial Vicar for the Diocese of San Diego in 1990 and served as an assistant to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura from 1995-2002. On July 5, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, where he served until his appointment as Bishop of Oakland on March 23, 2009. On July 27, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as the ninth Archbishop of San Francisco. He was installed on October 4, 2012.
Archbishop Cordileone chairs the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage and sits on the Committee for Canonical Affairs. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Theological Institute and the Subcommission on the Liturgy for the Anglican Ordinariates.
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JOHN S. HAMLON
Instructor, Easter’s Faith Formation Center
John Hamlon is a retired university instructor and administrator who currently teaches voluntary theology and philosophy classes to young adults and adults in the Sacramento area and beyond. The most popular, “game-changing” course for students is “St. John Paul II and the Meaning of Love.” John has a MA in theology from the University of San Francisco (USF) and did doctoral work at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He was the associate director of the St. Ignatius Institute (USF) from 1994 to 2001. Prior to that, he was the program director for national and international conferences on marriage and NFP at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN. He is the author of A Call to Families: A Commentary and Study Guide for Familiaris Consortio (revised 2015), the e-book Called to Existence through Love... for Love: St John Paul II on Love and Truth, Marriage and Family---A Tutorial for the Truth-Seeker (Amazon, 2019), and several aricles on marriage and family.