page_title: Robert Sarah
section_title: Presbytariate and episcopate
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Sarah / Presbytariate and episcopate
caption_attribution_description: English: President Benigno S. Aquino III exchanges views with His Eminence Robert Cardinal Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, during the Courtesy Call at the Music Room of the Malacañan Palace on Wednesday (January 29, 2014). Also in photo are Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines His Excellency Archbishop Guiseppe Pinto, Cor Unum Undersecretary Rev. Msgr. Segundo Muñoz, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Evan Garcia and Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) chairperson Henrietta de Villa. (Photo by Gil Nartea / Malacañang Photo Bureau) Français&#160;: Le président Benigno S. Aquino dialoguant avec son éminence le cardinal Robert Sarah, président du Conseil pontifical Cor Unum, pendant sa visite de courtoisie dans la salle de musique du palais Malacañan, le 29 janvier 2014. Aussi sur la photo, le nonce apostolique aux Philippines, son excellence l'archevêque Giuseppe Pinto.
context_page_description: Robert Sarah is a Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church. A Cardinal since 20 November 2010, he was appointed prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Francis on 23 November 2014. He previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II, and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI.
  A prominent voice of the College of Cardinals and in the Roman Curia, Sarah has been a forceful advocate for the defense of traditional Catholic teaching on questions of sexual morality and the right to life, and in denouncing Islamic radicalism. He has called gender ideology and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant the "two radicalizations" that threaten the family, the first through divorce, same-sex marriage and abortion, the latter with child marriage, polygamy and the subjection of women.
  Though he has been described as largely sympathetic to pre-Vatican II liturgical practices, he has also proposed that partisans of different liturgies learn from each other and seek a middle ground.
context_section_description: Sarah was ordained to the priesthood on 20 July 1969, and incardinated in the Diocese of Conakry. On 13 August 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed him Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry. He was consecrated bishop on 8 December 1979 by Cardinal Giovanni Benelli. He served as Conakry's bishop for more than twenty years and during that tenure filled terms as president of the Guinean bishops' conference and of the Episcopal Conference of West Africa.
caption: Cardinal Robert Sarah with President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines during courtesy call at Malacañan Palace
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