José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez

Cardinal coat of arms of José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez

José de Jesús Cardinal Pimiento Rodriguez (born February 18, 1919 in Zapatoca ; † September 3, 2019 in Floridablanca ) was a Colombian clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manizales . Since the death of Loris Francesco Capovilla on May 26, 2016, he was the oldest living cardinal , since the death of Jan Van Cauwelaert on August 18, 2016, he was also the longest-serving bishop of the Roman Catholic Church by ordination date.

Life

José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez began his priestly training at the seminary of San Gil , where he studied philosophy from 1936 to 1937. From 1938 to 1941 he studied theology at the Seminary of Bogotá and received on 14 December 1941, the ordination by Ismael Perdomo Borrero , the former Archbishop of Bogota . He was initially active in pastoral care , including at the Cathedral of San Gil. From 1943 to 1944 he was a teacher at the seminary of the diocese Socorro y San Gil . Since 1947 he worked for the Catholic Action .

Pope Pius XII appointed him on June 14, 1955 auxiliary bishop in Pasto and titular bishop of Apollonis . The Archbishop of Bogotá, Cardinal Crisanto Luque Sánchez , donated him episcopal ordination on August 28 of the same year . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Pasto, Emilio Botero González , and the Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Pedro José Rivera Mejía .

Pope John XXIII appointed him on December 30, 1959 Bishop of Montería . He participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on February 29, 1964 Bishop of Garzón-Neiva . On May 22, 1975, Pope Paul VI appointed him. to the Archbishop of Manizales . From 1972 to 1978 he was President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference. Previously he was there, among other things, President of the Episcopal Commission for Faith and Moral Questions. He managed to strengthen the pastoral life in the Archdiocese of Manizales by implementing reforms of the Second Vatican Council . He also founded a center for evangelization and catechism.

On October 15, 1996, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. Then Pimiento Rodriguez worked as a missionary in the Apartadó diocese . From 2001 to 2003 he was Apostolic Administrator of his home diocese, Socorro y San Gil. He last lived in Bucaramanga .

In solemn consistory of February 14, 2015 Pope Francis took him in absentia as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni Crisostomo in the College of Cardinals on. He received the red biretta and the cardinal's ring on February 28th of the same year from Rubén Salazar Cardinal Gómez and the Apostolic Nuncio Ettore Balestrero in his Colombian homeland.

Cardinal Pimiento Rodriguez died on September 3, 2019 as a result of a heart attack a few days earlier.

honors and awards

Grand Cross of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, awarded by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien (2015)

Web links

Pimiento Rodriguez, José de Jesús. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 1, 2015.
Entry on José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez on gcatholic.org (English)
Cardenal José de Jesús Pimiento. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the Archdiocese of Manizales. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 (Spanish).; accessed on September 5, 2019

Individual evidence

^ Fallce en Santander el que sería el cardenal más viejo del mundo. In: El Tiempo . September 3, 2019, Retrieved September 4, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ 100-year-old cardinal died. In: kathisch.de . May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
↑ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli o Diaconie. In: Daily Bulletin . February 14, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015 (Italian).
↑ The world's oldest cardinal died in Colombia: leading figure in the drug war. In: domradio.de . September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
^ Members of the order among the new cardinals. (PDF; 717 kB) In: Newsletter N ° XXXVIII. Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, April 2015, S. V , accessed April 24, 2015 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Rubén Isaza Restrepo	Bishop of Montería 1959–1964	Miguel Antonio Medina y Medina
Gerardo Martínez Madrigal	Bishop of Garzón-Neiva 1964–1975	Octavio Betancourt Arango
Aníbal Muñoz Duque	President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference 1972–1978	Mario Revollo Bravo
Arturo Duque Villegas	Archbishop of Manizales 1975–1996	Fabio Betancur Tirado

personal data
SURNAME	Pimiento Rodriguez, José de Jesús
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Colombian clergyman, senior archbishop of Manizales
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zapatoca
DATE OF DEATH	3rd September 2019
Place of death	Floridablanca

[1] Fallce en Santander el que sería el cardenal más viejo del mundo. In: El Tiempo . September 3, 2019, Retrieved September 4, 2019 (Spanish).

[2] 100-year-old cardinal died. In: kathisch.de . May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .

[3] Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli o Diaconie. In: Daily Bulletin . February 14, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015 (Italian).

[4] The world's oldest cardinal died in Colombia: leading figure in the drug war. In: domradio.de . September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .

[5] Members of the order among the new cardinals. (PDF; 717 kB) In: Newsletter N ° XXXVIII. Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, April 2015, S. V , accessed April 24, 2015 .