Juan Barros Madrid

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Juan Barros Madrid (born July 15, 1956 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Osorno .

Life

Juan Barros Madrid was ordained a priest on June 20, 1984 .

Pope John Paul II appointed him on April 12, 1995 auxiliary bishop in Valparaíso and titular bishop of Bilta . He was ordained episcopate on June 29th of the same year by the Bishop of Valparaíso, Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez ; Co-consecrators were Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larraín , Senior Archbishop of Santiago de Chile , and Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca , Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Chile.

As a motto he chose Fiat voluntas tua (Thy will be done). On November 21, 2000 he was named Bishop of Iquique . From 2004 to 2015 he was the military bishop of Chile .

Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Osorno on January 10, 2015 .

On June 11, 2018, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as Bishop of Osorno. He was succeeded by Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo as apostolic administrator .

Alleged sexual abuse cover-up

The service for the inauguration of Juan Barros in Osorno on March 21, 2015 was massively disrupted by numerous demonstrating believers and observed nationwide in Chile. They accused him of knowing about cases of sexual abuse of young people and young seminarians and of having covered the perpetrator, the ecclesiastically and politically influential priest Fernando Karadima , his spiritual mentor. Barros had belonged to Karadima's close circle of friends in his elite parish in the El Bosque parish in Santiago de Chile.

Both the Chilean Bishops' Conference and the Vatican supported Barros and stressed that the Congregation for the Bishops had carefully examined the nomination and found no reasons against the appointment. After Pope Francis publicly defended Bishop Barros again during his visit to Chile in January 2018 and thus offended the victims of the abuser Karadima, who was convicted in 2011, he was also criticized by the chairman of the papal child protection commission , Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley . On January 30, 2018, it was announced that the Archbishop of Malta would travel to Chile to examine the allegations. After talks with the Pope in May 2018, all incumbent Chilean bishops, a total of 34, offered Pope Francis their resignation on May 18, 2018. Juan Barros had already offered the Pope a few weeks earlier in the course of the debate about his controversial participation in the church ceremonies during the Pope's visit. The Pope, informally, officially adopted it on June 11th of the same year in late April or early May, when Barros was in Rome before his colleagues arrived.

Juan Barros is one of the seven Chilean bishops against whom public prosecutors are investigating because of various implications in the abuse affair in the Roman Catholic Church in Chile .

literature

  • Juan Andrés Guzmán, Gustavo Villarrubia, Mónica González: Los secretos del imperio de Karadima. The investigación definitiva sobre el escándalo que remeció a la iglesia chilena. Catalonia, UDP , Santiago de Chile 2017 (first edition 2011), ISBN 978-956-324-105-1 (especially final chapter, online see web links).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nomina del Vescovo di Osorno (Cile). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , January 10, 2015, accessed January 10, 2015 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b Rinuncia del Vescovo di Osorno (Cile) e nomina dell'Amministratore Apostolico sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis della medesima diocesi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 11, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ^ Pope appoints new bishops for Chile. In: The daily mail from June 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ La Tercera (Santiago de Chile): Reacciones tras investidura de Juan Barros: Desde "es un santo" hasta "que renuncie". Mientras dentro de la Catedral se repartían entre partidarios y manifestantes, en las afueras hubo incluso diputados protestando y pidiendo su renuncia , March 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ kathisch.de : The worst papal trip of all , January 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Vatican presents itself to the Chilean bishop. In: Die Tagespost , April 2, 2015, p. 4.
  7. ↑ kathisch.de : The worst papal trip of all , January 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Comunicato della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , January 30, 2018, accessed January 30, 2018 (Italian).
  9. ↑ All Chilean bishops submit their resignation. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2018, accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ El Senado revoca la nacionalidad chilena al cardenal Ezzati por encubrimiento de abusos. In: eldiario.es. January 7, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 (Spanish).
  11. ^ Camilo Rodríguez ( FSLN ): Iglesia Católica en Chile continúa en la mira de la Fiscalía. In: Barricada . September 25, 2018, Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Spanish).
predecessor Office successor
René Osvaldo Rebolledo Salinas Bishop of Osorno
2015-2018 		Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo OFM
Pablo Lizama Riquelme Military Bishop of Chile
2004–2015 		Santiago Silva Retamales
Enrique Troncoso Troncoso Bishop of Iquique
2000-2004 		Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández
personal data
SURNAME Barros Madrid, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Osorno
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile