“Habemus Papam!”: Who is Dominique Mamberti, the cardinal who will announce the new Pope in the world
Most unknown to the most part, but an exceptional figure of Vatican diplomacy, Dominique Mamberti is Cardinal ProtodiáconoYou are decir, El Encargation of the Gangit “I declare your great joy Karol!“(I announce a great joy: we have a potato!) It will be the first to speak from the central balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro to announce the world in the world New pontiff. It is not excluded from the possibility of becoming a pope, in which case the role of the protodiacone Conclave.
Mamberti obtained the position of Protodiácono Cardinal in October 2024, having become The cardinal of greatest antiquity belonging to the order of deaconsOne of the three orders that make up the Cardinal College together with the order of presbyters and the order of bishops. Before him, the French Jean-Louis Tauran had been Protodiacone del Benedict XVI Pope and the Chilean Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez in 2013 of Pope Francisco. Announcement Juan Pablo I. y John Paul IIBoth in 1978, it was the Italian danger happy.
Who is Dominique Mamberti
French, 73 years old, born on March 7, 1952 in the archdiocese of Rabat (Morocco), but Raisedwhere he moved with his very young parents. After studying the law in Strasbourg and ParisMamberti graduated in canonical jurisprudence from the Gregorian University of Rome.
In 2002 he was appointed archbishop of They don’t sleep (Corsica), then apostolic nuncation in Sudan and apostolic delegate in Somalia. In 2004 he also assumed the position of apostolic nuncation in Eritrea. In 2004 it was called by Joseph Ratzinger to State Secretariat As secretary for relations with the States on behalf of the Holy See in International Affairs, a position he held for eight years before being transferred from Jorge Bergoglio to the judiciary of the Vatican in 2014 and appointed cardinal the following year.
He was the “Minister of Foreign Affairs” of the Vatican with Pope Benedict before being appointed by Pope Francis Prefect of the Supreme Court of the apostolic signatureOne of the three main judicial bodies of the Holy See together with the apostolic penitentiary and the Rota Rota Court.
Diplomatic career and legal appointments
Dominique Mamberti is also considered an expert in International Policy in the Vatican. As a diplomat of the Holy See, he worked Algeria, Chile, at the United Nations of New York, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea, and has faced countries from the Middle East.
For the Holy See has made numerous trips and signed Several bilateral agreementsincluding the agreement with Green cape on the legal state of the Catholic Church in the African country in 2013 and collaboration in higher education with Serbia In 2014. His appointment as a prefect was seen by some as a measure to strengthen papal control over the Vatican judiciary, especially after the dismissal of his predecessor, the cardinal Raymond Burkeknown for their conservative opinions.
Cardinal positions and his opinion on homosexuality
The cardinal is in favor of the protection of religious freedom, human rights and fundamental freedoms. Often He condemned the growing secularism of the Church. In an interview with “Radio Vaticano” in 2013, he said he had supported the legitimacy of a sensitization clause for Christian businessmen who refused to provide homosexual services. His words raised the criticisms of LGBTQIA+ associationsthis interpreted them as a form of legitimate discrimination.
According to some documents mentioned by the newspaper “L’Empresso” in 2011 in a meeting with the bishops of Uganda In 2009, Mamberti would have commented in a different way the bill that provided hard, including the death penalty, for homosexuals in the African country.
For the then secretary for relations with states, the question of sexual orientation should have entered “In the moral sphere and not in the penalty”in an apparent sentence of the proposal. The declarations were not made public and there was no official reaction of the Holy See.
