Who is Dominique Mamberti, Cardinal Protodiacono who will announce the new Pope

If he will not appear to appear on the loggia of San Pietro we will know without having to be announced who the new Pope will be. I hardly happen, but not impossible. Dominique Mamberti, 73 years old, French, born in Marrakech, in the archdiocese of Rabat, in Morocco, on March 7, 1952, but raised in Corsica, He is the Cardinal Protodiacono, the one who has the announcement that everyone knows: Habemus Papam!. It is the oldest for appointment among the purple that belong to the order of deacons. It also remains an eligible for the pontificate even if its name is not among those circulated in the days preceding the conclave.

Completed secondary studies, enrolled in the Faculty of Law of StrasbourgThen he follows the post-grade courses at the University of Paris II, obtaining graduates of superior studies of public law and political sciences.

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Mamberti is the Prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Reportthe head of the maximum court of canon law of the Holy See. He studied law in Strasbourg and Paris, then graduated in canon law from the Gregorian University of Rome.

Even if he is a jurist for training, in his career he has done above all the diplomatic. He operated in Algeria, Chile, at the UN in New York, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea. In 2006 he was called by Benedict XVI to the Secretariat of State, as secretary for relations with the States. It has significant diplomatic skills and great experience of geopolitics.

In 2014 Pope Francis moved him to the Vatican judiciary, appointing him prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature. Since 2015 he has been Cardinal, since last year Protodiacono.

Supports the protection of the religious freedomfor Christians and religious minorities in the world, human rights and fundamental freedoms. He has often stigmatized the growing secularism in the Church. In 2013, in an interview on the Vatican radio, the Cardinal expressed his support for the legitimacy of a clause of consciousness for Christian employers, who could refuse to provide some services to homosexual people.

Even those who preceded him in announcing a pope was French: In 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio had announced Jean-Louis Tauran. In 2005, the Chilean Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez gave the announcement. In the two Conclavi of 1978 he touched the Italian Pericles Felici.

Source: Vanity Fair

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