Theodore Edgar McCarrick
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Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick

Church positions
See	Washington, DC
Title	Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Washington
Period in office	January 3, 2001 – May 16, 2006
Successor	Most Rev. Donald Wuerl
Previous post	Archbishop of Newark
Created cardinal	February 21, 2001
Personal
Date of birth	July 7, 1930 (1930-07-07) (age 78)
Place of birth	New York

Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick (b. July 7, 1930) was the fifth Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, DC, serving from 2001 to 2006.

Education

He attended Catholic school, Fordham Preparatory School, and Fordham University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York, United States, in 1954, and a Master's degree in history from the same institution in 1958. After being ordained to the priesthood by Francis Cardinal Spellman on May 31, 1958 in New York City, McCarrick went on to earn a second Master's degree in social sciences and a doctorate in sociology, both at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. As Archbishop of Washington he also served as the Chancellor and remains a member of the Board of Trustees of CUA.

McCarrick is an accomplished polyglot, credited by the Catholic Herald^[1] as being fluent in seven languages. Five are English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The other two they are referring to may be the church languages of Latin and Greek.

Episcopacy

Styles of Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Washington, D.C. (emeritus)

He was an auxiliary bishop of New York, the first Bishop of Metuchen, and Archbishop of Newark before becoming Archbishop of Washington.

He is the Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Ss. Nerei et Achillei. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

He also serves as the chairman of a task force examining the church's relationship with Catholic politicians whose voting records conflict with Church doctrine. It is in this position that he has upset many conservatives as he has failed to ever sanction any US politician.

Cardinal McCarrick's Final Homily as Cardinal Archbishop of Washington on June 18, 2006

On May 16, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington, DC, upon the latter's reaching the customary age limit, and appointed Donald Wuerl, Bishop of Pittsburgh, as the 6th Archbishop of Washington, DC. From May 16 until Wuerl's installation one month later on June 22, 2006, McCarrick served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Washington, an interim post. Despite stepping down from his post, McCarrick is still eligible to participate in future papal conclaves that begin before his 80th birthday on July 7, 2010.

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush welcome outgoing Archbishop of Washington Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, left, the incoming Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl, right, and Papal Nuncio Pietro Sambi to the White House.

On 12 March 2007 it was announced that Cardinal McCarrick will become a Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [1].

Episcopal Succession

References

1. ^ cardinal mccarrick

External links

• Biography from the Washington Archdiocese website.
• Catholic-Hierarchy.net statistics
• Retiring Archbishop Gives Farewell Homily Washingtonpost.com, June 19, 2006, by Candace Rondeaux.