Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga

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Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga (2015)
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Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga (born January 1, 1934 in Riobamba , Ecuador ) is retired Archbishop of Quito .

Life

Vela Chiriboga studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Santo Tomás Apóstol College of the Salesians of Don Bosco and at the great San José seminary in Quito . On July 28, 1957, he received the sacrament of ordination by Leonidas Proaño , Bishop of Bolívar (today the Diocese of Riobamba ). After a few years in pastoral care in the diocese of Riobamba, he was secretary of the diocesan conference in Riobamba from 1957 to 1967 and undersecretary of the Ecuadorian bishops' conference ("Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana" CEE) from 1968 to 1975 .

On April 20, 1972, Pope Paul VI appointed him . the titular bishop of Ausafa and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in Guayaquil . He was ordained bishop on May 21, 1972 by Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega SJ , Archbishop of Quito; Co- consecrators were Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz OFM , then Archbishop of Guayaquil and later Cardinal, and Leonidas Proaño, then Bishop of Bolívar.

Vela Chiriboga was founded on April 29, 1975 by Pope Paul VI. appointed Bishop of Azogues . From 1981 to 1989 he was a member of the Latin American Bishops' Conference CELAM . On July 8, 1989 it appointed Pope John Paul II. The Military Bishop of Ecuador and titular bishop of Pauzera . In 1994 he was the representative of Ecuador at the Synod of Bishops in Rome . From 1999 he was also President of the Pastoral and Liturgy Department in the Latin American Bishops' Conference CELAM.

Vela Chiriboga resigned as Titular Bishop of Pauzera on March 7, 1998 . On March 21, 2003, John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Quito and thus Primate of Ecuador; Vela Chiriboga took office on April 10, 2003.

On September 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. his resignation request submitted for reasons of age.

In the solemn consistory of November 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepted him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria in Via in the College of Cardinals . Vela Chiriboga attended the 2013 conclave .

On the 475th anniversary of the establishment of the first ecclesiastical jurisdiction, he made a few pastoral visits to parishes and called on Catholics to revive and profess their faith.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico per la Creazione di ventiquattro nuovi Cardinali (Continuazione) , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of November 20, 2010.
predecessor Office successor
José Gabriel Díaz Cueva Bishop of Azogues
1975–1989
Clímaco Jacinto Zarauz Carrillo
Antonio Cardinal González Zumárraga Archbishop of Quito
2003-2010
Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez OFM