Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín

Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (born August 9, 1927 in Buenos Aires ; † August 27, 2006 in Quito ) was Archbishop of Guayaquil from 1989 to 2003 and previously the first Ecuadorian military bishop from 1983 . The lawyer also published numerous books on Ecuadorian civil law.

Live and act

Juan Larrea Holguín was born in Argentina when his father, a well-known Ecuadorian historian, was staying there for diplomatic purposes. As a child he went to Ecuador with his family. He later went to Rome to study there. In 1949 he met Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer , the founder of Opus Dei . In 1952 he became the first Ecuadorian member of Opus Dei. He received his doctorate in civil and canon law and returned to Ecuador. On August 5, 1962, Larrea was ordained a priest for Opus Dei.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on May 17, 1969 titular bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Quito . He was ordained bishop on June 15 of the same year by Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega , Archbishop of Quito. Co- consecrators were Manuel de Jesús Serrano Abad , Archbishop of Cuenca , and the later Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz , Archbishop of Guayaquil. From 1969 to 1970 he was involved as an advisor to the responsible commission for legal reform in Ecuador. In the decades that followed, he continued to work as an expert on legal issues and took part in numerous international conferences. On June 28, 1980, Larrea became Bishop of Ibarra

Three years later, on August 5, 1983, he was appointed military bishop of the newly established Ecuadorian military ordinariate and titular bishop of Novi , which he remained for six years. On 25 March 1988 Pope appointed him John Paul II. To Koadjutorerzbischof of Guayaquil, on 7 December 1989, he became the successor of retired Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz as archbishop.

On May 7, 2003, John Paul II accepted his resignation due to reasons of age. Just three weeks after his 79th birthday, Juan Larrea Holguín, who had retired to Quito after his resignation, died. The Archdiocese of Guayaquil has already opened the diocesan beatification process.

Honors

• Chaplain of the Order of Malta

Web links

• Entry on Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernardino Cardinal Echeverría Ruiz OFM	Archbishop of Guayaquil 1989-2003	Antonio Arregui
---	Military Bishop of Ecuador 1983–1989	Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga
Silvio Luís Haro Alvear	Bishop of Ibarra 1980-1983	Luis Oswaldo Pérez Calderón