Biography of cardinal francis george

Cardinal Francis Eugene George O.M.I.,Archbishop emeritus of Chicago (USA), was born in Chicago, the son of Francis J. George and Julia R. McCarthy, on 16 January 1937.

He is the first native of Chicago to become Archbishop of the city.

After attending Saint Paschal Grade School in the north-west of Chicago and the Saint Henry Minor Seminary, Illinois, he entered the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on 14 August 1957.

He studied theology at the University of Ottawa in Canada and was ordained priest by Bishop Raymond P.

Hilliger on 21 December 1963.

Cardinal George pursued undergraduate studies in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and then doctoral studies in philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In these years, he also taught philosophy at the Seminary of the Oblates in Pass Christian, Mississippi (1964-69), at Tulane University, (1968), and at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (1969-73).

Fro