Born in Marrakech in Morocco on March 7, 1952, Dominique Mamberti is the only son of a Corsican official and a mother from Belfort.
A graduate of political studies and public law, Archbishop Mamberti was ordered a priest in September 1981 for the diocese of Ajaccio, and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1986. He worked at the Apostolic Nunciature (Embassy of the Holy See) in Algeria from 1986 to 1990, then in Chile (1990-1993), with the United Nations in new York (1993-1996) and in Lebanon (1996-1999).
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He was then stationed for three years at the Vatican, advisor to the State Secretaryie for relations with the United Nations.
From 2002, he became apostolic nuncio in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia.
In July 2002, he was devoted bishop to the Saint-Pierre Basilica of Rome by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, then Secretary of State of the Holy See. The pope also assigns him the title of archbishop holder of Sagone, which is now missing, which was located in Corse-du-Sud.
With these diplomatic experiences, he was appointed in 2006 by Benoît XVI to the post of “Minister of Foreign Affairs” of the Vatican. It was promoted in November 2014 to one of the highest positions of the pontifical hierarchy, that of prefect of the supreme court of the apostolic signature, the highest jurisdiction of the Catholic Church.
Renowned in the Vatican for his discretion and expertise, Mgr Mamberti, created Cardinal in 2015 by François, is one of the five French under the age of 80 called to elect his successor. In 2013, the cardinal having announced the election of Pope Francis was already a Frenchman, Jean-Louis Tauran, who died in 2018.
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