Christopher Cardone was born on Long Island, New York, on Dec. 20, 1957. His elder brother is a Marianist father and the superior of the Long Island-New York province of the Society of Mary.
Christopher Cardone joined the Dominicans and made his religious profession Aug. 15, 1981. He completed his theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a priest May 30, 1986.
For two years he was assistant parish priest at St. Gertrude’s in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1988 he was loaned to the Dominican Vicariate of Solomon Island and Papua New Guinea for six years (1988-94). He was vicar general (1992-94) under then Bishop Eusebius Crawford. In August 1994 he returned to his home province, only to come back a year later to the Solomon Islands. He has worked as a parish priest since then.
