Greg Burke

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Gregory Burke (2016)

Gregory Joseph "Greg" Burke (born November 8, 1959 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American journalist . From August 2016 until the end of 2018 he was the Press Secretary of the Holy See .

Life

Burke grew up in a Catholic family and attended a Jesuit school in his hometown. He studied at Columbia University in New York and graduated in 1983 with a degree in comparative literature. The American is a journalist and initially worked as a Vaticanista in Rome for the National Catholic Register , and from 1990 for Time magazine. He then worked for the major news channel Fox News . In 2012 he became a communications consultant in the Vatican State Secretariat . Since December 2015 he has been deputy spokesman. On August 1, 2016, he replaced the Italian priest Federico Lombardi ( SJ ), who resigned at the age of 73 after ten years in office. Burke is a member of Opus Dei . The order was announced on July 11, 2016. Burke was under the Dicastery for Communications .

At the end of 2018, Greg Burke and his vice spokeswoman Paloma García Ovejero surprisingly resigned.

In addition to English , Burke speaks Italian , Spanish and French .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Holy See, July 11, 2016 (Italian) , accessed July 12, 2016
  2. ↑ Andrea Bachstein: Profile Greg Burke. sueddeutsche.de, July 12, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2016 (with photo)
  3. ↑ NN: An American and a woman are new Vatican speakers. nzz.ch, July 11, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2016
  4. ↑ Personnel change in the Vatican: Vatican spokesman surprisingly resigns. , Domradio report of December 31, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Burke, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burke, Gregory Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist; Vatican spokesman
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri