Manuel Prado Pérez-Rosas

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Manuel Prado Pérez-Rosas

Manuel Prado Pérez-Rosas SJ (born May 26, 1923 in Lima , † October 9, 2011 in Huachipa / Lima) was a Peruvian clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Trujillo .

Life

Manuel Prado Pérez-Rosas joined the religious order of the Jesuits and was ordained a priest on July 13, 1956 . He was a long-time novice master of the religious house in Huachipa and rector of the Colegio San José de Arequipa, later pastor in San Ignacio de Piura. He was pastor of the Grupo Universitario Católico (Gruca) in Trujillo.

Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Chachapoyas on September 7, 1970 . The Archbishop of Lima Juan Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts, OFM , donated him episcopal ordination on October 7, 1970 ; Co- consecrators were Ricardo Durand Flórez SJ, Bishop of Cuzco , and Erasmo Hinojosa Hurtado , Archbishop of Piura . On December 29, 1976 he was appointed Archbishop of Trujillo . On July 29, 1999, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Act

After Vatican II he was significantly involved in the organization of the Latin American Bishops' Conferences in Puebla (1979) and Santo Domingo (1992). He was Vice-President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference and President of the Episcopal Commission for Seminary and Vocation Pastoral. In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo ( Medalla de Oro de Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo ) by the Peruvian Bishops' Conference .

He rebuilt the diocesan seminary of San Carlos y San Marcelo , which was closed for 12 years before he took office in Trujillo; the seminar became a model seminar in Peru.

Prado stayed several times and for long periods in different places in the Archdiocese of Trujillo . In particular, because of the ongoing terrorist violence, he lived with teachers and farmers in villages in the Libertad highlands such as Angasmarca, Cachicadán, Tulpo, Santiago de Chuco, Quiruvilca, Chuquisongo, Usquil, Otusco. During the cholera epidemic in 1991, he made the entire infrastructure of his diocesan facilities available to the government. During the military dictatorship in 1977 and 1980, he stood up for the civilian population.

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predecessor Office successor
José Germán Benavides Morriberón Bishop of Chachapoyas
1970–1976 		Antonio de Hornedo Correa SJ
Carlos Maria Jurgens Byrne CSsR Archbishop of Trujillo
1976–1999 		Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte OFM

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Pesar por la muerte de monseñor Manuel Prado Pérez-Rosas, Arzobispo Emérito de Trujillo” , Noticias Trujillo, October 10, 2011 (Spanish)
  2. ^ "Medalla de Oro de Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo" , Conferencia Episcopal Peruana, accessed on October 10, 2011 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ a b "Monseñor Manuel Prado: ejemplo de bondad, sencillez y humildad" , Noticias Trujillo, accessed on October 10, 2011 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Prado Pérez-Rosas, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian religious, Archbishop of Trujillo
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2011
Place of death Huachipa, Lima