Tarcisio Bertone

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone  (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate and a Vatican diplomat. He was a cardinal of the Catholic Church, he served as Archbishop of Vercelli from 1991 to 1995, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) was Prefect, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013.CathNews. Cardinal Bertone Wants to be Secretary of Church Not State 31 August 2006 

Bertone was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. On 10 May 2008, he was named Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. He was thought to be a candidate to replace Benedict XVI.

References

Other websites

 Biography at catholic-pages.com 
 Tarcisio Bertone, Salesian Cardinal

 Bertone interview 
 Thomas P. Doyle – Letter to Cardinal Bertone
 God's bankers – Economist
 Fall of the Vice-Pope - New York Review of Books

Category:1934 births
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Category:Diplomats of the Holy See
Category:People from Turin
Category:Cardinal Secretaries of State