Francisco José Cox Huneeus

Francisco José Cox Huneeus (born December 18, 1933 in Santiago de Chile ; † August 12, 2020 ) was a former Chilean clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of La Serena .

Life

Francisco José Cox Huneeus joined the Pallottine Community in 1954 . He studied economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile , then philosophy, theology, canon law and law at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and at the Lateran University in Rome. On July 16, 1961 he received in Friborg the priesthood for the Diocese of Talca . After founding the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers in 1965, he joined this community. He was national president of the Schoenstatt Movement in Chile, worked in the religious congregation of the Roman Curia and was pastor of the parish Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in his native city.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on December 14, 1974 Bishop of Chillán . The Archbishop of Santiago de Chile , Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez SDB , donated him episcopal ordination on March 2, 1975 ; Co- consecrators were Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz , Archbishop of Puerto Montt , and Fernando Ariztía Ruiz , Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Chile.

On August 4, 1981, Cox was appointed secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family and therefore resigned as Bishop of Chillán on November 9 of the same year. John Paul II appointed him coadjutor archbishop of La Serena on January 22, 1985 . With Bernardino Piñera Carvallo's retirement , Cox succeeded him on September 29, 1990 as Archbishop of La Serena.

On April 16, 1997, Francisco José Cox Huneeus resigned from office because of his “somewhat exuberant affection”, especially for children, that the Church had granted. In 2002 the former archbishop moved to Vallendar near Koblenz in Germany , the spiritual center of the Schoenstatt Movement. Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa justified this move with "inappropriate behavior" by Francisco Cox. Pope Francis dismissed him (together with the Chilean Bishop Marco Antonio Órdenes ) on October 13, 2018 for sexual abuse of minors from the clergy. In both cases, Article 21 Paragraph 2, Number 2 of the Vatican norms on the investigation and punishment of more serious canonical offenses ( Normae de gravioribus delictis ) was applied, which were first issued with the Motu Proprio Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela from 2001. In 2019, Cox returned to Chile to face investigations by the local judiciary. He died of multiple organ failure in August 2020 .

Francisco Cox was one of the seven Chilean bishops against whom public prosecutor's investigations were being conducted over various involvements in the abuse affair in the Roman Catholic Church in Chile .

Web links

• Entry on Francisco José Cox Huneeus on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry on Francisco José Cox Huneeus on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abuse: Archbishop Cox, discharged from the clergy, dies. Catholic.de, August 13, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Conferencia Episcopal de Chile: Episcopado Chileno: Monseñor Francisco José Cox Huneeus , accessed on October 15, 2018.
3. ↑ Sven von Reden: El Club. Filmdienst , 22/2015, accessed on December 1, 2015 (long review). 
4. ↑ Pope punishes two bishops for abuse. Catholic.de, October 13, 2018, accessed on October 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Mario Galgano: Vatican / Chile: two bishops released from clergy. In: Vatican News . October 13, 2018, accessed March 12, 2019 . 
6. ↑ El Senado revoca la nacionalidad chilena al cardenal Ezzati por encubrimiento de abusos. In: eldiario.es. January 7, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 (Spanish). 
7. ^ Camilo Rodríguez ( FSLN ): Iglesia Católica en Chile continúa en la mira de la Fiscalía. In: Barricada . September 25, 2018, Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Spanish). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz	Bishop of Chillán 1974–1981	Alberto Jara Franzoy
Bernardino Piñera Carvallo	Archbishop of La Serena 1990–1997	Manuel Gerardo Donoso Donoso SS.CC.