ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant to the Secretariat Director
Job Titles:
- Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell'Oro
Bishop Dell'Oro came to the United States in 1985 to work in New Hampshire at a school run by his religious congregation.
In 1988, he received a master of arts degree in counseling and psychotherapy from Catholic-run Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire.
In 1992, he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He served as pastor of Assumption Church in Houston.
In 2001, he served as director of vocations for the Somascan Fathers in Houston before being named the congregation's formation director in 2014.
From 2005 to 2012, he also worked as director of ministry to priests for the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese.
Since 2015, he has served as Vicar for Clergy and the Secretariat Director for Clergy Formation and Chaplaincy Services. He was named Vicar General in 2021.
On May 18, 2021, Pope Francis appointed him as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
He serves as a member of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Island Affairs and the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Bishop Dell'Oro speaks English, Italian and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Director of Human Resources
- Human Resources Staff Contacts
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- Superintendent for Catholic Schools
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- Associate Director of Human Resources Director of the Office of Child and Youth Protection
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- Director of Communications
- Secretariat Director of Communications
His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo is the metropolitan archbishop of Galveston-Houston and pastor to its 2 million-plus Catholics (and the 7.1 million people within the Archdiocese) and 435 priests in 146 parishes and 54 schools spread over 8,880 square miles. His seats are St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston and the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, and raised with three siblings in Castle Shannon near Pittsburgh, Cardinal DiNardo attended St. Anne grade school and the Jesuit-run Bishop's Latin school before enrolling in St. Paul Seminary and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received his master's degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and degrees of Sacred Theology from both the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome.
He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Pittsburgh on July 16, 1977 and served as parish pastor, seminary professor, spiritual director and in the chancery. From 1984 to 1991, he worked in Rome as a staff member for the Congregation for Bishops, as director of Villa Stritch (the house for American clergy), and as adjunct professor at the Pontifical North American College. In 1991 he returned to Pittsburgh, serving as pastor to several parishes and again in the chancery.
He was appointed coadjutor bishop of Sioux City, Iowa and ordained there as a bishop in October 1997. As his Episcopal motto he adopted: Ave Crux Spes Unic a, meaning "Hail the Cross, Our Only Hope." He succeeded retiring Bishop Lawrence Donald Soens of Sioux City in November of 1998.
He was named coadjutor bishop (later coadjutor archbishop) of Galveston-Houston in January 2004 and succeeded Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza on February 28, 2006. On June 29, 2006, he received the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in November of 2007 at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. He was designated the titular Church of Sant'Eusebio in Rome.
As a member of the Sacred College, he served as a Cardinal-Elector in the Papal Conclave of 2013, which saw the election of Pope Francis to the See of Peter.
In November of the same year, he was elected by his brother bishops as the Vice-President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for a three-year term. Cardinal DiNardo served as President of the USCCB from Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2019.
He was a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, the Pontifical Council for the Economy, and is on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston - Houston
- Chancellor and Moderator of the Curia
- Secretariat Director
Somasca, the place where St. Jerome Emiliani organized the first community of followers of the Somascan Order, is located approximately six miles from Bishop Dell'Oro's hometown.
He was ordained a priest in Como, Italy, on Sept. 11, 1982.
He earned a bachelor of sacred theology in 1982 from Pontifical University of Sant'Anselmo in Rome.
Obispo Italo Dell'Oro, C.R.S., nació el 20 de junio de 1953 en Malgrate, cerca de Lecco, Italia.