Guillermo Leaden

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Guillermo Leaden SDB (born July 20, 1913 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ; † July 14, 2014 there ) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires . He was the dean of the Argentine bishops.

Life

Guillermo Leaden, grandson of Irish immigrants, was one of seven children of Patricio José Leaden and his wife Brígida Ussher. His mother's brothers were Monsignor James M. Ussher and Salesian Father Thomas Ussher and Sister Maria Juana of the Don Bosco Sisters . Guillermo's brother was Father Alfredo Leaden SAC , who was found dead during the last military dictatorship on July 4, 1976 with two other friars and two seminarians in the rectory of the parish of San Patricio in Belgrano (Buenos Aires) ("Masacre de San Patricio") . The incident has not yet been resolved. In 2005 Archbishop Bergoglio set up a commission Ne pereant probationes - So that the evidence is not lost .

Guillermo Leaden was baptized on August 2, 1913 in the parish of San Carlos Borromeo in Buenos Aires and received First Communion on December 25, 1920 in the Church of the Most Holy (Av. Corrientes 4441). He entered the Colegio Pío IX in 1928 . and switched to the novitiate of the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco on January 6, 1932, and took up a teaching degree. In 1935 he moved to the Colegio Domingo Savio in Santa Rosa de Toay . On January 29, 1938, he made his perpetual profession in Bernal . He studied Catholic theology at the Instituto Villada in Cordoba and was ordained a priest on November 23, 1941 by Fermín Emilio Lafitte , Archbishop of Cordoba . He was then a teacher in Chile and Uruguay and director of the Salesian Schools of San Antonio, St. Catherine and St. Francis de Sales, all in Buenos Aires.

In 1963 the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Cardinal Caggiano , appointed him pastor of the Maria-Hilf-Basilica (Basílica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos) in Buenos Aires. In 1967 he became a member of the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy. In 1969 he was appointed Episcopal Vicar for Belgrano by Archbishop of Coadjutor Juan Carlos Aramburu , an office he held until 1992.

On May 28, 1975 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. Appointed Titular Bishop of Theudalis and Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires . He was ordained bishop on August 8, 1975 by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Juan Carlos Aramburu ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Morón , Miguel Raspanti SDB, and the Bishop of Río Gallegos , Miguel Angel Alemán Eslava . His episcopal motto was In cruce salus .

In 1988 he submitted his age-related resignation. On April 10, 1992, his age-related resignation was granted by Pope John Paul II . He has since lived in his residence in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Leaden was, among other things, ecclesiastical assistant to the Confederación de Uniones de Padres de Familia de los Colegios Católicos (CUPFRA) and the Fundación de Educación para la Paz (FEDEPAZ) as well as an advisor to Catholic Action for the Diocese of Buenos Aires. He was chairman of the Christian-Jewish commission of the Argentine Bishops' Conference.

Leaden believed it was important that priests guide their private lives around their spiritual calling. He also encouraged seminarians to put faithfulness to the Church at the center of their lives. He called Pope Francis a “holy man”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Murió monseñor Guillermo Leaden, decano del episcopado argentino , AICA, July 14, 2014 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ hz: Pallottines have existed in Argentina since 1886. Pallotti's work, 2/2013, ISSN  1439-6580
  3. ↑ Murió Guillermo Leaden, el decano de los obispos, Urgente24, July 14, 2014 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Leaden, Guillermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leaden, Guillermo SDB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine religious, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2014
Place of death Buenos Aires