Alejandro Goic Karmelic

Bishop Alejandro Goic

Alejandro Goic Karmelic (born March 7, 1940 in Punta Arenas , Chile ) is a Chilean clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Rancagua .

Life

Alejandro Goic Karmelic, whose name is written in the Croatian spelling 'Goić Karmelić', was born as the son of Croatian immigrants in Punta Arenas , the capital of the Chilean region of Magallanes . He was ordained a priest on March 12, 1966, when he was twenty-six . In 1973 he was appointed vicar general of his home diocese of Punta Arenas .

On 23 April 1979 at the age of thirty-nine, appointed him Pope John Paul II. To auxiliary bishop in Concepción and Titular Bishop of Africa . The episcopal ordination received his John Paul II. In person on May 27, 1979. co-consecrators were the Curia archbishops Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy and Eduardo Martinez Somalo .

In June 1991 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Talca . Within the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) , Goic was chairman of the youth ministry department from 1993 to 1994 . On October 27, 1994, Alejandro Goic was appointed Bishop of Osorno . On July 10, 2003, he was appointed coadjutor for the diocese of Rancagua . With the resignation of Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz on April 23, 2004, Alejandro Goic succeeded him as Bishop of Rancagua. In the same year he was elected chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Chile. He served as such until 2010, when he was succeeded by the newly appointed Archbishop of Santiago , Ricardo Ezzati Andrello SDB . Since then, Goic has acted as his deputy in the Chilean Bishops' Conference.

Goic has been the chairman of the Council of Chilean Bishops for Sexual Abuse in the Church since April 2011 and was responsible for the nationwide implementation and monitoring of measures for the prevention and accompaniment of victims in the dioceses. In the controversies surrounding the controversial Bishop of Osorno Juan Barros , who had belonged to the intimate circle of the influential abuser Fernando Karadima , who was convicted in 2011, he had already spoken out against his participation in the celebrations in the run-up to the Pope's visit in January 2018, when Barros was still in the Vatican was supported. In February Goic suggested that he resign. Immediately after Goic's return from the meeting of the Chilean episcopate in Rome with Pope Francis in May 2018, at which the Chilean bishops had offered their resignation, research by the Chilean television station Canal 13 uncovered an abuse network made up of priests from his own diocese in Rancagua. Goic was accused of not responding to clues from a victim two years earlier and of neglecting appropriate investigations that might have uncovered the conspiratorial priesthood , known as La Familia , which apparently coordinated its actions to abuse minors. Goic justified himself by stating that he had not received any substantiated evidence, but nevertheless apologized for not having acted earlier and resigned from his position as the Chilean bishops' representative against abuse.

On June 28, 2018, Pope Francis then accepted his age-related resignation, which Goic, who was already over 75 at the time, had already submitted before the meeting in Rome in May. At the same time, the Pope appointed Luis Fernando Ramos Pérez , Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Chile, in addition to the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Rancagua, where he was responsible for investigating the cases of abuse that were discovered. Ramos is considered a confidante and collaborator of the Chilean cardinals Ricardo Ezzati, incumbent Archbishop of Santiago, and Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa , his predecessor, who are both under great pressure due to the Chilean abuse scandal.

Due to the incidents in his diocese, Alejandro Goic Karmelic is one of the seven Chilean bishops against whom public prosecutor's investigations are being carried out because of various implications in the abuse affair.

Web links

• Entry on Alejandro Goić Karmelić on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Short biography on the website of the Chilean Bishops' Conference (as of June 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alejandro Goic y Benito Baranda se van con todo contra Juan Barros: lo califican de imprudente y apuntan a que "debería haber dejado de ser obispo hace mucho tiempo". In: El Mostrador , January 19, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 (Spanish).
2. ↑ Caso Barros: peticiones de renuncia aumentan en medio de entrevistas de Scicluna. In: Cambio 21 , February 24, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 (Spanish).
3. ↑ Elise Harris: Chilean bishop suspends 12 priests, apologizes for not acting sooner. In: Catholic News Agency , May 21, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019.
4. ↑ La Iglesia chilena suspende a los 14 sacerdotes que abusaron sexualmente de varios jóvenes y menores de edad. In: Público , May 23, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 (Spanish).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Inés San Martín: Pope removes two Chilean bishops accused of abuse cover-ups. In: Crux , June 28, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019.
6. ↑ Obispado de Rancagua restituye en sus funciones a dos párrocos de la cofradía “La Familia”. In: Radio Universidad de Chile , October 19, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 (Spanish).
7. ^ Rinuncia del Vescovo di Rancagua (Cile) e nomina dell'Amministratore Apostolico sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis della medesima diocesi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 28, 2018, accessed June 28, 2018 (Italian). 
8. ↑ Consequences of dealing with abuse. In: Domradio , June 28, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019.
9. ^ Abuse in Chile: Public prosecutor secures mails from cardinals. In: Vatican News . September 12, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ El Senado revoca la nacionalidad chilena al cardenal Ezzati por encubrimiento de abusos. In: eldiario.es. January 7, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 (Spanish). 
11. ^ Camilo Rodríguez ( FSLN ): Iglesia Católica en Chile continúa en la mira de la Fiscalía. In: Barricada . September 25, 2018, Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Spanish).