Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández

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Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández (born October 29, 1964 in Iquique , Región de Tarapacá , Chile ) is a Chilean, former clergyman and former bishop of Iquique .

Life

The Bishop of Iquique, Enrique Troncoso Troncoso , ordained him a priest on December 14, 1996 .

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Iquique on October 23, 2006. The Archbishop of Santiago de Chile , Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa ISch , donated him episcopal ordination on November 18 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Pablo Lizama Riquelme , Archbishop of Antofagasta , and Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz SSCC , Bishop of Rancagua . As a motto he chose Amar, Servir y Confiar .

On October 9, 2012, Benedict XVI. his resignation. Pope Francis dismissed him (and former Archbishop Francisco Cox ) from the clergy on October 13, 2018 for sexually abusing minors . In both cases, Article 21 Paragraph 2, Number 2 of the Vatican norms on the investigation and punishment of more serious canonical offenses ( Normae de gravioribus delictis ) was applied, which were first issued with the Motu Proprio Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela from 2001.

Marco Antonio Órdenes is one of the seven Chilean bishops against whom public prosecutors are investigating because of various involvements in the abuse affair in the Roman Catholic Church in Chile .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chilean bishop suspected of sex abuse resigns: Vatican. In: NDTV.com. October 9, 2012, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Pope punishes two bishops for abuse. In: kathisch.de . October 13, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Mario Galgano: Vatican / Chile: two bishops released from clergy. In: Vatican News . October 13, 2018, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ El Senado revoca la nacionalidad chilena al cardenal Ezzati por encubrimiento de abusos. In: eldiario.es. January 7, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ^ Camilo Rodríguez ( FSLN ): Iglesia Católica en Chile continúa en la mira de la Fiscalía. In: Barricada . September 25, 2018, Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Spanish).
predecessor Office successor
Juan Barros Madrid Bishop of Iquique
2006–2012 		Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto
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SURNAME Órdenes Fernández, Marco Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Órdenes Fernández, Marco A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean priest, Bishop of Iquique
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Iquique