Luis Robles Díaz

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Luis Robles Díaz (born March 6, 1938 in El Grullo in the state of Jalisco , Mexico ; † April 7, 2007 ) was a diplomat of the Holy See , apostolic nuncio in Cuba from 1999 to 2003 and most recently Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America .

Life

Luis Robles Díaz was ordained a priest on April 14, 1963 in Autlán in the Mexican state of Jalisco. In the same year, at the request of his bishop, he went to study in Rome , where he obtained a license in canon law . In 1967 he was accepted into the diplomatic service of the Vatican and sent to the Apostolic Nunciature in Honduras , where he worked as assistant to the then Nuncio for Honduras and Nicaragua, Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti . In 1970 he was transferred to the Nunciature in South Africa . Further posts abroad took him to Ethiopia and Sri Lanka . At the end of the 1970s he returned to Latin America and worked as an advisor to the nunciatures in Ecuador and Colombia .

In 1985 he was appointed titular archbishop of Stephaniacum by Pope John Paul II . He was ordained bishop on April 9 of the same year in Autlán in the atrium of his baptistery by the Archbishop of Mexico , Cardinal Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Autlán , José Maclovio Vásquez Silos , and Bishop José Fernández Arteaga of Colima .

At the same time, Robles Díaz was appointed Pro-Nuncio in Sudan and Apostolic Delegate for the Red Sea region . In 1990 he was appointed pro-nuncio in Uganda , where he received the Pope in 1995 on his trip to Africa. On March 6, 1999, Robles Díaz took up the post of Apostolic Nuncio in Cuba . At the time, Robles was the only Mexican career diplomat in the service of the Roman Curia and the first and so far only papal nuncio ever to come from Mexico.

In 2003 he was appointed as the successor to the Spanish Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America . He was the first Vice-President of this commission, who himself came from Latin America, and, as the closest collaborator of the then President Giovanni Cardinal Re, was largely responsible for the coordination of the Vatican's activities in Latin America.

In December 2005 Archbishop Robles traveled with Cardinal Re to Germany to read a message from the Pope to the Catholic Bishops' Organization for Latin America ADVENIAT in food to bring. Re and Robles also visited the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop and visited the Stations of the Cross on the Haniel dump, inaugurated in 1987 by Pope John Paul II .

Immediately before his death, Robles Díaz was busy with the preparations for the V General Assembly of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean ( CELAM ), which took place in the Brazilian pilgrimage site of Aparecida from May 14 to 31, 2007 and was attended by Pope Benedict XVI. was opened as part of his Latin America trip. Shortly after returning from a preparatory meeting with the chairmen of the Latin American Bishops' Conferences in Bogotá , the Archbishop was admitted to a Roman hospital on Ash Wednesday and died after several heart attacks on Holy Saturday 2007. The exequies took place on April 11, 2007 in the chapel of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and were held by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone and Cardinal Re. The body of the deceased was transferred to Mexico according to his own wishes and buried in the Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe in his birthplace, El Grullo .

His successor as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America was on May 31, 2007 the Colombian Archbishop Octavio Ruiz Arenas .

In addition to his native Spanish , Luis Robles Díaz also spoke Italian , French , English and German . Employees described him as popular and emphasized his kind, humble and understanding nature.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Press release of April 10, 2007 (ACI)
  2. ↑ a b See Cardinal Re's sermon from April 11, 2007 ( Memento from April 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ a b List of the Apostolic Nuncio in Cuba with short biographies (Internet source)
  4. ↑ Press release of April 9, 2007 (Notimex)
  5. ↑ a b Agency report from October 25, 2003 (Fides)
  6. ↑ Press release of December 19, 2005 (Adveniat)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.presseportal.de  
  7. ^ WAZ report from December 18, 2005
  8. ↑ Press release of April 11, 2007 (La Crónica)
  9. ↑ News from June 1, 2007 (El Tiempo)

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personal data
SURNAME Robles Díaz, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See and Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH El Grullo , Jalisco State , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2007