Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte

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Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte

Archbishop of Trujillo
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseTrujillo
SeeTrujillo
Appointed29 July 1999
Installed11 September 1999
PredecessorManuel Prado Perez-Rosas
Other post(s)President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (2018-)
President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (2019-)
Orders
Ordination7 December 1974
Consecration7 August 1988
by Juan Landázuri Ricketts
Personal details
Born
Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte

(1948-07-05) 5 July 1948 (age 75)
Previous post(s)Auxiliary Bishop of Lima (1988-96)
Titular Bishop of Belesasa (1988-98)
Military Ordinary of Peru (1996-99)
President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (2006-12)
MottoGratia et Misericordia

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

Biography[edit]

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. 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 where he took office on 7 March 1998. On 29 July 1999 he was named Archbishop of Trujillo.[1]

Pope John Paul named him a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 5 July 2004.[2][a]

He was president of the Peruvian Bishops Conference from 2009 to 2012, and he began 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.[4]

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.[5][b]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Pope Francis confirmed him as a member of that Commission on 15 January 2014.[3]
  2. ^ Five other members are synod officials who serve ex offico and four are named by Pope Francis.[6][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mons. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte ofm arzobispo metropolitano de Trujillo (Perú)". General Curia of the Friars Minor, Rome (in Spanish). 30 July 1999. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.07.2004" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 5 July 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 15.01.2014" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Peruvian archbishop elected new president of CELAM". Crux. Catholic News Service. 16 May 2019. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  5. ^ Hansen, Luke (8 October 2019). "Here's what happened on the first day of the Amazon Synod". America. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Sínodo de la Amazonía: Eligen a miembros de comisión que elaborará documento final" (in Spanish). ACI Prensa. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. ^ 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.