Timothy Broglio

The Most Reverend Timothy Broglio
Archbishop for the Military Services, USA
Broglio at Al Asad Airbase
Diocese	Military Services, USA
Appointed	November 19, 2007
Installed	January 25, 2008
Predecessor	Edwin F. O'Brien
Orders
Ordination	19 May 1977 by Sergio Pignedoli
Consecration	19 March 2001 by John Paul II
Personal details
Born	(1951-12-22) 22 December 1951 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
Nationality	American
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Previous post	Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic (2001-2007)
Alma mater	Boston College Pontifical Gregorian University
Coat of arms

Styles of Timothy Broglio
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Archbishop

Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio (born December 22, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop for the Military Services, USA.

Biography

Timothy Broglio was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, he attended Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, OH.

Broglio attended Boston College, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Classics, and seminary at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, receiving an STB.

Broglio was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli on May 19, 1977.

Broglio then served as an associate pastor at St. Margaret Mary Parish in South Euclid, Ohio; later remarking that assignment was “the best two years of [his] life”

Returning to Rome in 1979, he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and graduated in 1983, whence he also earned his doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian, and joined the Vatican’s diplomatic corps.

After serving as secretary for the nunciatures to the Ivory Coast (1983-1987) and to Paraguay (1987-1990), Broglio worked at the Vatican Secretariat of State as desk officer for Central America and then as personal secretary to Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano.

On February 27, 2001, Broglio was appointed Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, as well as Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico, and Titular Archbishop of Amiternum. He received his episcopal consecration (covered by a National Geographic Channel program called "Inside the Vatican") on the following March 19 from Pope John Paul II himself, with Cardinals Angelo Sodano and Giovanni Battista Re serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter's Basilica.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Distance University.

Pope Benedict XVI later named Broglio head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA on November 19, 2007. The Archbishop was formally installed as such on January 25, 2008, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Aside from his native English, Broglio is fluent in Italian, Spanish, and French.

See also

• Catholic Church hierarchy
• Catholic Church in the United States
• Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
• Insignia of Chaplain Schools in the US Military
• List of Catholic bishops of the United States
• List of Catholic bishops of the United States: military service
• Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
• Military chaplain
• Religious symbolism in the United States military
• United States military chaplains

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, official website
• Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
• "Inside the Vatican," Pt. 2 - Covering Archbishop Broglio's consecration on YouTube

Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Edwin Frederick O'Brien	Archbishop for the Military Services January 25, 2008 – Present	Incumbent
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by François Robert Bacqué	Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic 2001–2007	Succeeded by Józef Wesołowski