Father Bruno Cadoré, O.P. (born 1954) is a French

French people

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 Roman Catholic priest

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 of the Dominican Order

Dominican Order

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. He was elected the 87th Master of the Order of Preachers at the General Chapter of the Order in Rome

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, on 5 September 2010 and therefore ex offico Grand Chancellor

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 of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas

Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas

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. Cadoré is a trained physician

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, with specialization in the field of bioethics

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Background

Bruno Cadoré was born in Le Creusot

Le Creusot

Le Creusot is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom.Since the 1990s, the...

, France

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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 was 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

Université Catholique de Lille

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