Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo (born November 10, 1926 in Salvatierra , Mexico , † May 24, 1993 in Guadalajara ) was Archbishop of Guadalajara .
Life
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo received his theological training in the seminary of Morelia . He was ordained a priest on September 23, 1950 and initially worked as a parish chaplain, before he was appointed as a lecturer, prefect of studies and deputy seminar leader in the training of the next generation of priests.
On March 21, 1970 Pope Paul VI appointed him . to the Bishop of Tijuana . The Archbishop of Morelia , Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla , ordained him episcopal on June 15 of the same year. Co-consecrators were his predecessor Alfredo Galindo Mendoza MSpS and Auxiliary Bishop Román Acevedo Rojas from Morelia.
Pope John Paul II commissioned him on December 28, 1982 with the direction of the diocese of Cuernavaca and on May 15, 1987 appointed him Archbishop of Guadalajara .
On June 28, 1991 Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo was admitted to the College of Cardinals as a cardinal priest with the titular church Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo Martire . He was murdered on May 24, 1993 at Guadalajara airport and buried in the local cathedral .
The assassin Jorge Humberto Rodriguez Banuelos was sentenced to forty years in prison in 2005. Six other people were killed in the assassination attempt on the archbishop. The Tijuana cartel is suspected as the client . The cardinal had spoken out against organized crime and drug traffickers in his diocese on several occasions. With the shooting at the airport of Guadalajara, where the archbishop wanted to pick up the apostolic nuncio , a gang demonstratively established their supposed power in the state and society of this region and eliminated an uncomfortable moral authority.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 40 years imprisonment for the murder of Cardinal Posadas Ocampo. In: derStandard.at . December 22, 2005, accessed February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Memory of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of XX. Century: Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo. In: santegidio.org . September 26, 2005, archived from the original on October 22, 2007 ; accessed on February 13, 2019 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Galindo Mendoza MSpS |
Bishop of Tijuana 1970–1982 |
Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán |
| Sergio Méndez Arceo |
Bishop of Cuernavaca 1982–1987 |
Luis Reynoso Cervantes |
| José Cardinal Salazar López |
Archbishop of Guadalajara 1987-1993 |
Juan Cardinal Sandoval Íñiguez |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Posadas Ocampo, Juan Jesús |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Posadas Ocampo, Cardinal Juan Jesús (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican clergyman, Archbishop of Guadalajara and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salvatierra (Guanajuato) , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1993 |
| Place of death | Guadalajara , Mexico |