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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Antonio Maria Javierre Ortas, Bernard Francis Law, Carlo Confalonieri, Charles Morerod, Christoph Schonborn, Claudio Hummes, Dino Staffa, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Ernesto Ruffini, Fernando Filoni, Franc Rode, Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Gaetano Bisleti, Gerhard Ludwig Muller, Gianfranco Ravasi, Giuseppe Betori, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Ivan Dias, Jean-Louis Brugues, Jean-Pierre Ricard, Joao Braz de Aviz, John Michael Miller, Joseph Schroffer, Jose Policarpo, Jose Saraiva Martins, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Leonardo Sandri, Luis Antonio Tagle, Marc Ouellet, Mauro Piacenza, Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Oswald Gracias, Peter Turkson, Pio Laghi, Raffaele Farina, Rainer Woelki, Reinhard Marx, Thomas Christopher Collins, William Levada, William Wakefield Baum, Wim Eijk, Zenon Grocholewski. Excerpt: William Joseph Levada (born June 15, 1936) is an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From May of 2005 until June of 2012, he served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Benedict XVI; during his tenure 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 Muller of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany, who was named an Archbishop. William Joseph Levada was born in Long Beach, California, to Joseph and Lorraine (nee 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 immigrated 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. From 1958 to 1961, Levada studied at the North American College and did his theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1961, by Archbishop Martin John O'Connor, rector of the Pontifical North American College and president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, in St. Peter's Basilica. From 1961 until around 1966, Levada worked in parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, including St. Monica's Church in Santa Monica. He also taught high school and worked in college campus ministry. After this, he returned to Rome and continued his studies a
