Rubén Salazar Gomez

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Archbishop Rubén Salazar Gómez (2011)
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Rubén Dario Cardinal Salazar Gómez (born September 22, 1942 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian Roman Catholic clergyman and retired Archbishop of Bogotá and former primate of the Roman Catholic Church of Colombia . From 2015 to 2019 he was President of the Latin American Bishops Council CELAM .

Life

Rubén Salazar Gómez studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Seminary of Ibague . He completed a degree in dogmatics at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a degree in biblical exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute . Salazar Gómez received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Ibagué on May 20, 1967 .

In 1967 Rubén Salazar Gómez became spiritual and professor at the Colegio Tolimense in Ibagué and in 1968 he was also chaplain in the parish Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro in Ibagué. From 1987 to 1990 Salazar Gómez was director of the national secretariat for social pastoral care of the Colombian Bishops' Conference . In 1990 Rubén Salazar Gómez became pastor of the Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá parish in Ibagué and episcopal vicar for pastoral care.

February 11, 1992 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To the Bishop of Cucuta . He was ordained bishop on March 25th of the same year by the Apostolic Nuncio in Colombia, Archbishop Paolo Romeo ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Ibagué, José Joaquín Flórez Hernández , and the Archbishop of Cali , Pedro Rubiano Sáenz . As a motto he chose Tunc dixi ecce venio ("Then I said: Yes, I am coming" - Ps 39.8 in the Vulgate = Ps 40.8 of the Hebrew Bible). On March 18, 1999, Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Barranquilla . Pope Benedict XVI appointed him on July 8, 2010 Archbishop of Bogotá and thus Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia. The inauguration took place on August 13 of the same year.

In the consistory of November 24, 2012 Benedict XVI took him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Gerardo Maiella in the college of cardinals . After the resignation of Benedict XVI. he took part in the 2013 conclave that Pope Francis elected.

From 2008 to 2014 Rubén Salazar Gómez was also President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference . The bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean elected him on May 13, 2015 in Santo Domingo for the 2015 to 2019 term of office as President of the Latin American Bishops' Council CELAM .

Rubén Salazar Gómez was invested in the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on May 25, 2011 by Cardinal Grand Master John Patrick Foley with the rank of Comtur with a star . In 2012 he was appointed Grand Cross Knight by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien .

On April 25, 2020, Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation.

Positions

At the anti-abuse summit in the Vatican, Rubén Salazar Gómez criticized “clerical excuses and defense strategies”. The enemies of the church do not come from without, but from within. The cardinal also praised the role of the media in investigating sexual crimes committed by clergy. One of the sins of the church hierarchy was not to listen or to claim that victims of abuse were only interested in financial compensation. In order as a church to be able to contribute to the eradication of the "worldwide culture of sexual abuse", it needs "holier priests and religious" and a "holier people of God".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Barranquilla (Colombia) e Nomina del Successore ( Memento of July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of March 18, 1999.
  2. ↑ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Bogotá (Colombia) e Nomina del Successore , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of July 8, 2010.
  3. ^ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico per la creazione di sei nuovi Cardinali: Assegnazione dei Titoli o delle Diaconie ai nuovi Porporati , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of November 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Three Cardinals promoted to Grand Cross Knights (PDF; 220 kB) , OESSH Newsletter, No. XXIX, December 2012
  6. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Bogotá (Colombia) e nomina del nuovo Arcivescovo Metropolita. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 25, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ^ Declaration of war on clericalism at crisis summit in the Vatican. www.erzdioezese-wien.at, February 22, 2019
predecessor Office successor
Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS Bishop of Cúcuta
1992–1999 		Óscar Urbina Ortega
Félix María Torres Parra Archbishop of Barranquilla
1999–2010 		Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve
Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sàenz Archbishop of Bogotá
2010–2020 		Luis José Rueda Aparicio
Carlos Cardinal Aguiar Retes President of the Latin American Bishops' Council CELAM
2015–2019 		Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte OFM
personal data
SURNAME Salazar Gómez, Rubén
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salazar Gómez, Rubén Dario (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian Roman Catholic clergyman and archbishop emeritus of Bogotá and former primate of Colombia
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá , Colombia