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Cardinal Blase Cupich
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Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich in clerical attire, looking slightly to the side against a plain background. Cardinal Blase Cupich leads a large group of marchers through Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, holding a wooden cross reading Stop Shooting to call for an end to violence. Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Archbishop of Chicago Blase Cupich in the Apostolic Palace, with people applauding in the background.
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Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich in clerical attire, looking slightly to the side against a plain background.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, 2019 Cupich was appointed archbishop of Chicago in 2014 and made a cardinal in 2016.

Cardinal Blase Cupich

Roman Catholic prelate
Also known as: Blase Joseph Cupich
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René Ostberg
RenĂ© Ostberg is an associate editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. 
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When the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV was elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in May 2025, it was inevitable that the world’s attention would turn to his hometown archdiocese and the bishop who oversees it. That bishop is Cardinal Blase Cupich, a Croatian American Midwesterner whom Pope Francis appointed in 2014 to take charge of the Chicago archdiocese. Two years later Francis elevated Cupich to the rank of cardinal. Cupich quickly became one of...

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