Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda

Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda SDB (born November 7, 1936 in Ocotepeque ) is a Honduran religious priest and Roman Catholic bishop.

Life

After entering the seminary of the Salesians of Don Bosco , the novitiate year , the first vows and the philosophical-theological studies, Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda was ordained a priest on May 5, 1966 .

On January 27, 1984, he was appointed bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán , which was vacant for three and a half years after the death of José Carranza Chévez on July 17, 1980. The episcopal ordination took place on March 17, 1984 by Archbishop Andrea Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo and the co-consecrators Bishop Jaime Brufau Maciá CM and Archbishop Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga , who had served as Apostolic Administrator in this diocese from 1981 to 1984 .

At the end of September 2009, the Honduran media reported that the country's opposition wanted to appoint Santos Villeda as President of Honduras, who had stood out as a critic of the coup d'état against President Manuel Zelaya that had been carried out a few weeks earlier . In doing so, Bishop Santos contradicted his Salesian brother, Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga , who only criticized the manner in which he was disempowered, but had described Zelaya's removal as constitutional.

On November 7, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. the resignation submitted by Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda for reasons of age.

Web links

• Entry for Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honduras: Opposition wants to heave a bishop into the office of president , Adveniat from August 31, 2009 ( adveniat.de ( memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ))
2. ^ Church in Conflict. The Honduran crisis is in motion , in: Domradio from September 25, 2009 ( domradio.de ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ))

predecessor	Office	successor
José Carranza Chévez	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán 1984–2011	Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez CRS