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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 2013 In September 2006 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was appointed the Vatican's secretary of state. He resigned from the position in October 2013.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

Vatican official
Also known as: Tarcisio Bertone
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Matt Stefon was a religion editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned B.A. degrees in English and American studies from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in religion and literature and an...
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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (born December 2, 1934, Romano Canavese, Italy) is an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Vatican secretary of state (2006–13) and cardinal camerlengo (2007–14). Bertone was ordained a priest in the Salesian order in 1960. He was professor of moral theology and canon law at Pontifical Salesian University in Rome between 1967 and 1991. Meanwhile, he contributed to the 1983 revision of the Code of Canon Law...

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