René Fernández Apaza

René Fernández Apaza (born January 9, 1924 in Padilla , † August 14, 2013 in Cochabamba ) was Archbishop of Cochabamba .

Life

René Fernández Apaza received in the November 28, 1948 Buenos Aires , the ordination .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on March 2, 1968 Bishop of Oruro . The Archbishop of Sucre José Clemente Cardinal Maurer CSsR donated him episcopal ordination on April 21 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Jorge Manrique Hurtado , Archbishop of La Paz , and Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo , Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra . On July 30, 1975 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed Archbishop of the Bolivian Military Ordinary; he resigned from this office on May 17, 1986.

On November 21, 1981 he was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Sucre by Pope John Paul II and succeeded Josef Clemens Cardinal Maurer on November 30, 1983 after his retirement as Archbishop of Sucre. On April 16, 1988 he was appointed Archbishop of Cochabamba . In the Bolivian Bishops' Conference he was, among other things, President of the Commission for Doctrine and Faith.

On July 8, 1999, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He died of a heart attack during morning mass in the chapel of his home in Cochabamba . He was buried in the Catedral de San Sebastián en Cochabamba .

Honors

• Gran Medalla de Oro of the city of Cochabamba (1998)

Web links

• Entry on René Fernández Apaza on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved August 15, 2013.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jorge Manrique Hurtado	Bishop of Oruro 1968–1981	Julio Terrazas Sandoval CSsR
Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo	Bishop of the Bolivian Military Ordinary 1975–1986	Mario Lezana Vaca
Josef Clemens Maurer CSsR	Archbishop of Sucre 1983–1988	Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez OFM
Gennaro Maria Prata Vuolo SDS	Archbishop of Cochabamba 1988–1999	Tito Solari Capellari SDS