Jorge Mayer

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Jorge Mayer (born November 20, 1915 in San Miguel Arcángel , Argentina , † December 25, 2010 in Bahía Blanca , Argentina) was Archbishop of Bahía Blanca .

Life

Jorge Mayer came, like the bishops Enrique Rau and Alejandro Schell , from a colony of German immigrants (Colonia San Miguel Arcángel) in the province of Buenos Aires. He studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Latin American College "Pius" and canon law at the Gregoriana . On March 23, 1940 he received in Rome the priesthood . He was pastor of the parish of Coronel Pringles and later in the cathedral of Bahia Blanca. Mayer held important offices in the diocesan administration.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on March 13, 1957 first bishop of Santa Rosa . The Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Germiniano Esorto , gave him episcopal ordination on June 9th of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Manuel Marengo , Bishop of Azul , and Enrique Rau , Bishop of Mar del Plata . On June 29th of the same year he was solemnly inducted into office.

At the Second Vatican Council Mayer took part as a council father .

Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of Bahía Blanca on May 31, 1972, and on July 21 of the same year he was solemnly inducted into office. In 1987 Pope John Paul II was a guest in Bahía Blanca.

On May 31, 1991 Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Jorge Mayer died on December 25, 2010 and was buried in the Nuestra Señora de La Merced Cathedral in Bahía Blanca.

Individual evidence

  1. Biography on the homepage of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca (accessed December 27, 2010)
  2. “Murió Mons. Jorge Mayer, arzobispo emérito de Bahía Blanca “ , AICA, December 27, 2010

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predecessor Office successor
Germiniano Esorto Archbishop of Bahía Blanca
1972–1991
Rómulo García
--- Bishop of Santa Rosa
1957–1972
Adolfo Roque Esteban Arana