The 2010 Dominican General Chapter has elected Father Bruno Cadoré, 55, as the 86th successor of Saint Dominic as the Master General of the order. He immediately succeeds Father Carlos Aspiroz Costa who has served for the last 9 years, Communio reports.
Father Bruno, until now, has been the Prior Provincial of the French Province and trained as a physician and in bio-ethics.
Father Bruno will live at the Convent of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill in Rome.
Fr Bruno Cadoré was born in 1954 in Le Creusot, a town in the Bourgogne region of France, between Lyon and Dijon. After becoming a medical doctor, he entered the novitiate of the Dominican province of France in 1979 and made profession in September 1980.
He was ordained priest in Lille exactly six years later and was immediately made master of students.
Fr Bruno held several positions of responsibility in the province of France and he was coming to the conclusion of his second term as prior provincial of the same province when he was elected Master of the Order.
His area of academic interest is bioethics and he received his doctorate in moral theology in 1992.
He was director of the Medical Ethics Centre of the Catholic Institute of Lille before becoming provincial of the province of France.
The Dominican General Chapter meets every three years and elects a new Master of the Order every nine. This is the 290th General Chapter.
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