Bruno Cadoré OP is a

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of the

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who headed the Order from 2010 to 2019. Cadoré is a trained

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, with specialization in the field of

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Biography

Bruno Cadoré was born in

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, in 1954. He was a medical doctor before entering the Dominican novitiate in 1979. He made profession in the order in 1980, and was ordained a priest in 1986, earning a doctorate in moral theology in 1992. Prior to his election as Master of the Order, Cadoré had been Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of France. He has also served as director of the Medical Ethics Center of the Université Catholique de Lille. He was elected to a nine-year term as the 87th Master of the Order of Preachers at the General Chapter of the Order in

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, on 5 September 2010, which made him

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Grand Chancellor of the

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, ''Angelicum''. During his term of office as Master of the Order, Cadoré was the chancellor of

Colegio de San Juan de Letran The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, (transl: College of San Juan de Letran) also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers i ...

and the

University of Santo Tomas The University of Santo Tomas (also known as UST and officially as the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila) is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines. Founded on April 28, 1611, by Spanish friar Migue ...

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. Upon completion of his nine-year mandate, Cadoré was succeeded by

Gerard Timoner Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III (born January 26 1968) is a Filipino Catholic priest who serves as the 88th Master of the Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans, since 13 July 2019, the first Asian to hold the position. He is ...

. He is the author of With Him: Listening to the Underside of the World (Bloomsbury Continuum 2019)

References

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