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Jun 08, 1941 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 82 years old
Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender
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About George Pell
- George Pell (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church and convicted child sex offender.
- He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018.
- Ordained in 1966 and created a cardinal in 2003, Pell has previously served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996).
- He has also been an author, columnist and public speaker.
- Since 1996 Pell has maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining a strict adherence to Catholic orthodoxy.
- His views on the environment, and global warming in particular, are inconsistent with scientific consensus.Pell worked as a priest in regional Victoria and in Melbourne as well as chairing the aid organisation Caritas Australia from 1988 to 1997.
- He was appointed as a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998, received the Centenary Medal from the Australian government in 2003 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2005.
- During his tenure as the Archbishop of Melbourne, Pell set up the "Melbourne Response" protocol to investigate and deal with complaints of child sexual abuse in the archdiocese.
- The protocol was the first of its kind in the world, but has been subject to a variety of criticisms.Pell is the Catholic Church's most senior official to be convicted of child sexual abuse.
- In June 2017, Pell was charged in Victoria with multiple historical sexual assault offences; he denied all charges.
- On 11 December 2018 Pell was found guilty on five charges related to sexual assault of two boys in the 1990s.
- On 13 March 2019 Pell was sentenced to six years in prison.
- Pell's conviction had initially been subject to a suppression order issued by Judge Peter Kidd, suppressing coverage of the conviction by Australian media companies, and lifted on 26 February 2019 after pending charges in a second trial were dropped.
- International media reported on the conviction immediately, commenting on the difficulty confirming details of the trial and conviction due to the suppression order.Pell lodged an appeal against his conviction to the Victorian Court of Appeal, which dismissed Pell's appeal by a majority of two to one in August 2019.
- On 13 November 2019, two justices of the High Court of Australia referred the decision on Pell's leave to appeal to a full court "for argument as on an appeal".
- A date for that hearing will be set later. Pell's five-year term on the Council of Cardinal Advisers concluded in October 2018.
- In February 2019, the Holy See's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith initiated its own investigation of the charges against Pell, which could lead to Pell being defrocked.
- His five-year term as Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy concluded that same month.
