Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte

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Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, OFM (born 5 July 1948) is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Trujillo since 1999. He has been a bishop since 1988 and heads the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM).

Biography

Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte was born in Chota on 5 July 1948. He took his vows as a Franciscan on 29 June 1974 and on 7 December 1991 he was ordained a priest of that order.[citation needed]

On 20 June 1988, Pope John Paul II named him auxiliary bishop of Lima. He received his episcopal consecration on 7 August from Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima. On 6 February 1996, Pope John Paul named him head of the Military Ordinariate of Peru and then on 29 July 1999 Archbishop of Trujillo.[citation needed] Pope John Paul appointed him to serve as a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 5 July 2004.[1][a]

He was president of the Peruvian Bishops Conference from 2009 to 2012 and began serving another term in that in 2018. He was elected to a four-year term as president of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM) in May 2019.[3]

He was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document.[4][b]

Notes

  1. ^ Pope Francis confirmed him as a member of that Commission on 15 January 2014.[2]
  2. ^ Five other members are synod officials who serve ex offico and four are named by Pope Francis.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.07.2004" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 5 July 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 15.01.2014" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Peruvian archbishop elected new president of CELAM". Crux. Catholic News Service. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  4. ^ Hansen, Luke (8 October 2019). "Here's what happened on the first day of the Amazon Synod". America. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Sínodo de la Amazonía: Eligen a miembros de comisión que elaborará documento final" (in Spanish). ACI Prensa. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  6. ^ Elizalde Prada, Óscar (15 October 2019). "El Papa define la Comisión de Redacción del Sínodo Panamazónico con cuatro hombres de confianza". Vida Nueva Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2019.