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Leonardo Sandri
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Leonardo Cardinal Sandri is an Argentine prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on June 9, 2007. Sandri is a polyglot who besides his native Spanish, he speaks Italian, French, English and German. On 17 October 2007, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will make Sandri a Cardinal. Sandri will be elevated to the College of Cardinals in the consistory at St. Peter's Basilica on 24 November 2007.
Born in Buenos Aires, Sandri was ordained a priest there on December 2 1967. He was educated at the Metropolitan Seminary of Buenos Aires and the Theological Faculty, Buenos Aires where he was awarded a licentiate in theology. He continued his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he studied for a doctorate in canon law. He completed his training at the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy where he studied diplomacy.
At the Secretariat his duties include organizing the activities of the Roman Curia and appointments to curial offices, maintaining papal documents, keeping the papal seal and Fisherman's Ring, handling the concerns of embassies to the Holy See, coordinating activities of the Holy See's nuncios, and publishing official communications. On the evening of 2 April 2005, it fell to Sandri to tell the world, "We all feel like orphans this evening" as he made public the news of Pope John Paul II's death.
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