José Salazar López

His Eminence José Salazar López
Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara
Photo taken sometime in the 1980s.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Guadalajara
See	Guadalajara
Appointed	21 February 1970
Installed	1 March 1970
Term ended	15 May 1987
Predecessor	José Garibi Rivera
Successor	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza (1973-91)
Previous post(s)	Titular Bishop of Prusias ad Hypium (1961-67) Coadjutor Bishop of Zamora (1961-67) Bishop of Zamora (1967-70) President of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (1973-80)
Orders
Ordination	26 May 1934 by José Garibi Rivera
Consecration	20 August 1961 by José Garibi Rivera
Created cardinal	5 March 1973 by Pope Paul VI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	José Salazar López 12 January 1910 Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico
Died	9 July 1991(1991-07-09) (aged 81) Santísima Trinidad Hospital, Guadalajara, Mexico
Buried	Guadalajara Cathedral
Parents	Cándido Salazar Ortiz Luisa López Villaseñor
Alma mater	Pontifical Gregorian University
Motto	Ministrare

Styles of José Salazar López
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Guadalajara (emeritus)

José Salazar López (January 12, 1910 – July 9, 1991) was a Mexican Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Guadalajara from 1970 to 1987, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

Biography

Born in Ameca, Jalisco, José Salazar López studied at the seminary in Guadalajara and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome before being ordained to the priesthood on May 26, 1934. He then did pastoral work in Guadalajara until 1961. During this time, Salazar led the construction of the Conciliar Seminary of Guadalajara, where he later served as a professor and prefect of studies (1934-1944), vice-rector (1944-1950), and rector (1950-1961). He was made Apostolic Visitor to the seminaries in Puebla and Durango in 1958.

On May 22, 1961, Salazar was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Zamora and Titular bishop of Prusias ad Hypium by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 20 from Cardinal José Garibi y Rivera, with Archbishop Francisco Nuño y Guerrero and Bishop José Anaya y Diez de Bonilla serving as co-consecrators. After attending the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, Salazar succeeded Anaya y Diez as Bishop of Zamora on September 15, 1967. He was later named Archbishop of Guadalajara on February 21, 1970.

Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal Priest of S. Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza in the consistory of March 5, 1973. Salazar once served as President of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively. He resigned as Guadalajara's archbishop on May 15, 1987, and lost the right to participate in another conclave upon reaching age 80 on January 12, 1990.

The Cardinal died from a heart attack in Guadalajara, at the age of 81. He is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of the same city.

External links and additional sources

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Guadalajara". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)^{self-published}
• Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guadalajara". GCatholic.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)^{self-published}