Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Salvatore Cordileone was appointed the Archbishop of San Francisco on July 27, 2012, and was installed on October 4, 2012, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. In 2018, he founded The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, and in 2024, in response to a call for Catholics of the Americas to prepare for the 500th anniversary of the appearances of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego, he and a group of other American bishops launched Project Guadalupe 31.

In 2026, Pope Leo XIV appointed him to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church's highest court.