Juan Gualberto Guevara
Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara (born July 12, 1882 in Villa de Vitor, Peru , † November 27, 1954 in Lima ) was Archbishop of Lima .
Life
Juan Gualberto Guevara received his theological and philosophical training in Arequipa and Rome . On June 2, 1906, he received the sacrament of ordination and then worked as a pastor in Arica, which was once Peruvian and has been Chilean since 1883 . When Peru broke off diplomatic relations with Chile in 1910 after a dispute over the application of the Treaty of Ancón , he had to leave Arica. From 1910 to 1920 he was sub-rain of the Arequipa seminary , from 1916 to 1940 he was a journalist and editor of the well-known Peruvian newspaper "El Deber".
Pope Pius XII appointed Juan Gualberto Guevara Bishop of Trujillo in 1940 . He received his episcopal ordination on March 2, 1941, by the then Apostolic Nuncio in Peru and later Cardinal Fernando Cento ; Co- consecrators were Felipe Santiago Hermosa y Sarmiento , Bishop of Cuzco , and Domingo Juan Vargas OP , Bishop of Huaraz . In 1943 he was appointed Archbishop of Trujillo and in early 1945 he was appointed Military Bishop of Peru . On December 16, 1945 he was appointed Archbishop of Lima.
On February 18, 1946, Pope Pius XII took Juan Gualberto Guevara as cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Eusebio in the cardinals college. He was the first cardinal from Peru. In 1950 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order de Isabel la Católica . Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara died on November 27, 1954 after suffering from cancer for a long time in Lima and was buried in the local cathedral .
Web links
- Guevara, Juan Gualberto. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed March 3, 2016.
- Entry for Juan Gualberto Guevara on catholic-hierarchy.org
Footnotes
- ↑ European talks. Hamburg Monthly Issues for Foreign Policy , vol. 6 (1928), p. 538.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Pedro Pascuál Francesco Farfán de los Godos |
Archbishop of Lima 1945–1954 |
Juan Landázuri Ricketts OFM |
| Carlo Garcia Irigoyen |
Archbishop of Trujillo 1940–1945 |
Aurelio Macedonio Guerrero |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guevara, Juan Gualberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guevara, Cardinal Juan Gualberto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian clergyman, Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villa de Vitor, Peru |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1954 |
| Place of death | Lima |