Arturo Rivera y Damas

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Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas (2nd from left) at the posthumous award of an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de El Salvador to Óscar Romero

Arturo Rivera y Damas SDB (born September 30, 1923 in San Esteban Catarina , El Salvador , † November 26, 1994 in San Salvador ) was Archbishop of San Salvador.

Life

Arturo Rivera joined the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco and was ordained a priest on September 19, 1953 .

In 1960 he was appointed by Pope John XXIII. Appointed Titular Bishop of Legia and Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of San Salvador . He received his episcopal ordination from the Archbishop of San Salvador Luis Chávez y González ; Co-consecrators were his predecessor Auxiliary Bishop Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla SDB, and Auxiliary Bishop Rafael Valladares y Argumedo .

In 1977 he was led by Paul VI. appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de María . In 1983 he was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador ; he succeeded the murdered Óscar Romero .

From 1983 until the peace agreement in 1992, Bishop Rivera, together with the bishop of the Ecuadorian diocese of Santo Domingo de los Colorados , the German Emil Stehle , was actively involved in mediating with the guerrilla organization FMLN to end the civil war . For this he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with Bishop Stehle .

Bishop Rivera died in 1994 of complications from a heart attack.

Awards

literature

  • Ulrike Purrer Guardado: Pastoral Diplomacy. The role of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas in the peace process in El Salvador (1980–1992). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06776-8 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ulrike Purrer Guardado: Pastoral Diplomacy. The role of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas in the peace process in El Salvador (1980–1992) . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 4.
predecessor Office successor
Óscar Romero Archbishop of San Salvador
1983–1994 		Fernando Sáenz Lacalle
Óscar Romero Bishop of Santiago de María
1977–1983 		Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera Cuéllar


personal data
SURNAME Rivera y Damas, Arturo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rivera Damas, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran clergyman, Archbishop of San Salvador
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH San Esteban Catarina , El Salvador
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1994
Place of death San Salvador , El Salvador