Military Ordinary of El Salvador
| Military Ordinary of El Salvador | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | El Salvador |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| founding | March 25, 1968 |
| Parishes | 60 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Diocesan priest | 30 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious priest | 28 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Friars | 2 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| address | Calle Los Eucaliptos y Avda. Las Gardenias 157, Colonia Las Mercedes, Apartado 2720, San Salvador |
The military ordinariate of El Salvador is a military ordinariate in El Salvador and is responsible for the armed forces of El Salvador . Its task is the pastoral care of the Catholic members of the armed forces.
history
The military ordinariate was established by Pope Paul VI. Erected on March 25, 1968. By mutual agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of El Salvador, the seat of the military ordinariate is in San Salvador . From the proclamation of the papal bull of March 25, 1968, José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez , the auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, was appointed the first military bishop of El Salvador's military on November 4, 1968.
Conduct in the Salvadoran Civil War
During the Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992), numerous priests, religious and lay people were threatened, tortured and murdered by the armed forces of the country and by right-wing paramilitaries because of their social and political commitment . When Miguel Ventura, pastor in Osicala ( Morazán department ) was kidnapped by the military and tortured for several days in the barracks of Anamorós ( La Unión department ), Alvarez, who was also a colonel of the Salvadoran army as a military bishop, declared : “Father Miguel is a human being and not been tortured as a priest. ”Klaus Hagedorn describes Alvarez's behavior as a“ concrete example of how bishops themselves abandoned their priests ”.
| Military bishops in El Salvador | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez CM |
Auxiliary Bishop in San Salvador Bishop of San Miguel |
4th November 1968 | March 7, 1987 |
| 2 | Roberto Joaquín Ramos Umaña | Titular Bishop of Sebarga | March 7, 1987 | June 23, 1993 |
| 3 | Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca | February 2, 2008 | 7th December 2017 | |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonas Hagedorn: A church between life and death. Archbishop Oscar A. Romero and the Persecuted Church of El Salvador. In: Klaus Hagedorn (Ed.): Oscar Romero. Integrated - between life and death. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, pp. 75-86.
- ↑ María López Vigil: Piezas para un retrato. San Salvador 1993, pp. 167f.
- ↑ Jonas Hagedorn: A church between life and death. Archbishop Oscar A. Romero and the Persecuted Church of El Salvador. In: Klaus Hagedorn (Ed.): Oscar Romero. Integrated - between life and death. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, p. 78.