Timothy Broglio

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Timothy Paul Broglio
Archbishop for the Military Services, USA

Broglio at Al Asad Airbase
Archdiocese Military Services, USA
Appointed November 19, 2007
Installed January 25, 2008
Predecessor Edwin F. O'Brien
Orders
Ordination May 19, 1977
by Sergio Pignedoli
Consecration March 19, 2001
by John Paul II, Angelo Sodano, and Giovanni Battista Re
Personal details
Born (1951-12-22) December 22, 1951
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic
Previous post
Alma mater Boston College
Pontifical Gregorian University
Motto QUAERITE REGNUM DEI (Seek God's Kingdom)
Styles of
Timothy Paul Broglio
Reference style
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Archbishop

Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio (born December 22, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop for the Military Services, USA.

Biography

Timothy Broglio was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, he attended Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, OH.

Broglio attended Boston College, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Classics, and seminary at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, receiving an STB.

Broglio was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli on May 19, 1977.

Broglio then served as an associate pastor at St. Margaret Mary Parish in South Euclid, Ohio; later remarking that assignment was “the best two years of [his] life”[1]

Returning to Rome in 1979, he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and graduated in 1983, whence he also earned his doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian, and joined the Vatican’s diplomatic corps.

After serving as secretary for the nunciatures to the Ivory Coast (1983-1987) and to Paraguay (1987-1990), Broglio worked at the Vatican Secretariat of State as desk officer for Central America and then as personal secretary to Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano.

On February 27, 2001, Broglio was appointed Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, as well as Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico, and Titular Archbishop of Amiternum. He received his episcopal consecration (covered by a National Geographic Channel program called "Inside the Vatican") on the following March 19 from Pope John Paul II himself, with Cardinals Angelo Sodano and Giovanni Battista Re serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter's Basilica.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Distance University.[2]

Pope Benedict XVI later named Broglio head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA on November 19, 2007. The Archbishop was formally installed as such on January 25, 2008, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Aside from his native English, Broglio is fluent in Italian, Spanish, and French.

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Pilot. BC alumnus named to head Archdiocese for the Military Services November 23, 2007
  2. ↑ http://www.cdu.edu/documents/welcome/CDU-boardoftrustees.html
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Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Edwin Frederick O'Brien		 Archbishop for the Military Services
January 25, 2008 – Present 		Incumbent
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
François Robert Bacqué		 Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic
2001–2007 		Succeeded by
Józef Wesołowski
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