Jaime de Nevares

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Jaime Francisco de Nevares SDB (born January 29, 1915 in Buenos Aires , † May 19, 1995 in Neuquén ) was an Argentine religious and Roman Catholic bishop .

Church career

In 1945 de Nevares joined the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco. After completing his philosophical and theological studies, he was ordained a priest on November 25, 1951 .

On June 12, 1961, Pope John XXIII called him . first bishop of the newly established diocese of Neuquén . He was ordained episcopate on August 20th of the same year by the Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia , Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava SDB. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Viedma , José Borgatti SDB, and the Bishop of Morón , Miguel Raspanti SDB.

He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and in 1968 at the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) in Medellin ( Colombia part). On May 14, 1991 Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation and he went as a pastor to the parish of San Cayetano in the middle of the industrial park.

In 2011, the Diocese of Neuquén honored the late bishop with a six-meter-high statue created by the local artist Aldo Beroiza.

Jaime de Nevares tomb

Social and political engagement

Jaime de Nevares was a co-founder of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights and the Ecumenical Human Rights Movement , which campaigned for the people who disappeared in the course of the Dirty War (1974-1983) and their families. In 1983 and 1984 he was a member of CONADEP , the commission of inquiry that came into being after the end of the military dictatorship (1976-1983). His open stand against the dictatorship had increasingly isolated him within the Argentine Bishops' Conference.

As a bishop, de Nevares was heavily influenced by the option for the poor . In his diocese he founded indigenous, migrant and social pastoral teams and campaigned in particular for the rights of the Mapuche living in the province of Neuquén .

On April 10, 1994, de Nevares was elected to the Constitutional Convention for the reform of the Argentine constitution for the province of Neuquén with an absolute majority. However, he later resigned from office for reasons of conscience.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enormous estatua homenajea al obispo Jaime de Nevares . In: Río Negro , January 6, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Liliana Daunes, Claudia Korol: Reportaje especial: Iglesia de la liberación en Argentina - entre el poder y la fe ( Memento of the original of September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Adital website. Retrieved April 11, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adital.com.br
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Neuquén
1961–1991 		Agustín Roberto Radrizzani SDS
personal data
SURNAME Nevares, Jaime de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nevares, Jaime Francisco de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine Salesian Don Bosco and Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1995
Place of death Neuquén