Miguel Obando Bravo

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Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo SDB (born February 2, 1926 in La Libertad , Nicaragua , † June 3, 2018 in Managua ) was Archbishop of Managua .

Life

Miguel Obando Bravo came from a rural family and entered the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco after finishing school . He studied philosophy , Catholic theology and pastoral psychology in El Salvador , Guatemala , Colombia and Venezuela . On August 10, 1958, he received the sacrament of ordination through Archbishop Giuseppe Paupini and worked for a year as a teacher of mathematics and physics . In 1959 he became disciplinary prefect at the seminary of the Salesians in San Salvador, in 1961 rector of the Rinaldi Institute of the Salesians.

On January 18, 1968, Pope Paul VI appointed him . as titular bishop of Putia in Byzacena and auxiliary bishop in Matagalpa . He was ordained episcopate on March 31 of the same year by Marco Antonio García y Suárez , Bishop of Granada ; Co- consecrators were Clemente Carranza López , Bishop of Esteli , and Juan Luis Barni Spotti , Prelate of Juigalpa . Paul VI appointed him two years later, on February 16, 1970, Archbishop of Managua. From 1971 to 1974 and again from 1979 to 1983 he was President of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua.

During Somoza's dictatorship, he offered active resistance and renewed the Church in a critical attitude towards the regime. Obando also consistently opposed the regime of the socialist Sandinista , who had entered into an alliance with progressive, Marxist-oriented parts of the church that were strongly inspired by the liberation theology that emerged from the internal church reforms of the Second Vatican Council . At the beginning of the Sandinista reign, Miguel Obando Bravo still supported them.

With this so-called "Volkskirche" ("iglesia popular") he was in violent conflict. Instead, he openly supported the non-violent sections of the anti-Scandinavian opposition, especially the group around the future president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro . For this he was attacked by the left-wing parts ("iglesia popular"). In the literature, depending on the author, it is described as both liberal and arch-conservative. He always enjoyed the full support of Pope John Paul II. In the negotiations that ultimately led to the 1990 armistice and free elections, he actively mediated.

Pope John Paul II accepted Miguel Obando Bravo on May 25, 1985 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto in the college of cardinals . He was the first cardinal from Nicaragua. Cardinal Obando Bravo attended the Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops in Santo Domingo in 1992 . On March 12, 2005, he resigned from the office of Archbishop of Managua for reasons of age, but attended the 2005 conclave . He did not take part in the 2013 conclave for reasons of age. In July 2003, Daniel Ortega , the former Sandinista leader , asked Cardinal Obando for forgiveness for the regime’s actions against the Church, and after he took office again in 2007, he appointed him President of the National Commission for Peace and Reconciliation.

Pista Cardenal Miguel Obando

A street in Managua was named after him during his lifetime. The Pista Cardenal Miguel Obando is almost 500 meters long and around eight meters wide at its widest point. On his 90th birthday in February 2016, President Ortega recognized him as a "national hero of peace and reconciliation".

Honors and awards

literature

  • Domingo Urtasun Martínez: Miguel Obando Bravo cardenal por la paz . Managua 1994.
  • Guido Heinen: "With Christ and the Revolution". History and work of the “iglesia popular” in Sandinista Nicaragua (1979–1990) (= Munich Church History Studies, 7). Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1995.

Web links

Commons : Miguel Obando y Bravo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Muere a los 92 años el Cardenal Miguel Obando y Bravo. El Nuevo Diario , June 3, 2018, accessed June 5, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Rinuncia dell'arcivescovo metropolita di Managua (Nicaragua) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin of the Holy See . April 1, 2005, accessed June 5, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Ortega propone a cardenal Obando como "Procer Nacional". cardinalrating.com, February 3, 2013, archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; Retrieved February 14, 2016 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Cardenal Miguel Obando Bravo. ACI Prensa (Agencia Católica de Informaciones), accessed May 13, 2018 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Ortega condecora a cardenal Obando con orden Rubén Darío
predecessor Office successor
Vicente Alejandro González Robleto Archbishop of Managua
1970-2005 		Leopoldo José Cardinal Brenes Solórzano
personal data
SURNAME Obando Bravo, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obando Bravo, Cardinal Miguel SDB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan clergyman, Archbishop Emeritus of Managua and Cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH La Libertad Chontales , Nicaragua
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2018
Place of death Managua , Nicaragua