Pedro Lisímaco Vílchez

Pedro Lisímaco de Jesús Vílchez Vílchez (born May 19, 1929 in Jinotega , † February 19, 2013 there ) was a Nicaraguan clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Jinotega .

Life

Pedro Lisímaco Vílchez, son of a farming family, attended the Colegio “Rubén Darío” de Managua . The Bishop of Matagalpa , Arnulfo Isidro Oviedo , sent him on for training at the Colegio Salesiano de Granada , where he studied with Miguel Obando Bravo SDB . He graduated in philosophy and theology from the San José de la Montaña seminary in El Salvador . He received on 6 February 1955 by the Bishop of Matagalpa, Octavio Calderon y Padilla , the ordination . He worked in the diocese of Matagalpa and there first at the cathedral of Matagalpa, later head of the Colegio San Luis . With a scholarship he was able to study canon law from 1960 to 1962 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After his return he worked in pastoral care in Nicaragua.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Prelate of Jinotega on July 19, 1984 . The apostolic nuncio in Nicaragua and Honduras , Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo , donated him episcopal ordination on September 8, 1984 ; Co- consecrators were Miguel Obando Bravo SDB, Archbishop of Managua , and Julián Luis Barni Spotti OFM , Bishop of Juigalpa . With the elevation of the territorial prelature to the diocese on April 30, 1991, he was appointed the first bishop of Jinotega. On May 10, 2005, Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

He was committed to the Charismatic Movement and the Cursillo Movement. In 2013 he was made an honorary citizen of Jinotega.

Web links

• Entry for Pedro Lisímaco de Jesús Vílchez Vílchez on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved February 20, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} "Jinotega de luto por obispo Vílchez" , El Nuevo Diario, February 20, 2013

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Prelate of Jinotega 1984-1991	-
-	Bishop of Jinotega 1991-2005	Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez OFM