Luis Antonio G. Tagle, DD

His Eminence, Most Rev. Luis Antonio Cardinal G. Tagle, D.D. serves as Pro-Prefect of the Section for the First Evangelization and New Particular Churches of the Dicastery for Evangelization and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Urban University. He completed his basic theological formation at the Loyola School of Theology as a seminarian of San Jose Seminary, Ateneo de Manila University. He was ordained a priest in 1982 for the Diocese of Imus. He earned a Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America, completing his doctorate summa cum laude in 1991. He served as rector of the Imus Diocesan Seminary and as Bishop of Imus (2001–2011) and Archbishop of Manila (2011–2019). Created cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012, he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in 2019 and became Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization in 2022. Cardinal Tagle has participated in synodal and initiatives, with attention to evangelization, the poor, youth, and the Church in Asia.