Cardinal burke biography

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on June 30, , the youngest of the six children of Thomas F. and Marie B. Burke. His elementary education was undertaken at St.

Mary School in Richland Center () and at St. Joseph School in Stratford, Wisconsin ().

He attended high school at Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from to , and also completed college courses there ( ) before attending the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he studied as a Basselin Scholar ( ).

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He undertook his studies for ordination at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome () and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Paul VI on June 29, , at the Basilica of St. Peter.

Burke&#;s first assignment was as associate rector of the Cathedral of St.

Joseph the Workman in La Crosse. In he took up the additional duty of teaching religion at Aquinas High School in La Crosse. In Burke returned to Rome to study Canon Law at the Pontifi