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Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça serves as prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, a position he has held since 2022. A native of Portugal, a scholar, and a poet, Cardinal Tolentino taught on the Faculty of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also served as vice-rector and dean of the Faculty of Theology. In 2018 Pope Francis elevated him to the post of archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church and named him an archbishop. In 2019 he was made a cardinal.