Alberto Suárez Inda Explained

Type:cardinal
Honorific-Prefix:His Eminence
Alberto Suárez Inda
Cardinal
Archbishop Emeritus of Morelia
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Morelia
See:Morelia
Appointed:20 January 1995
Term Start:24 February 1995
Term End:5 November 2016
Predecessor:Estanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa
Successor:Carlos Garfias Merlos
Other Post:Cardinal-Priest of San Policarpo (2015-)
Ordination:8 August 1964
Ordained By:Luis María Altamirano y Bulnes
Consecration:20 December 1985
Consecrated By:Girolamo Prigione
Cardinal:14 February 2015
Created Cardinal By:Pope Francis
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Birth Name:Alberto Suárez Inda
Birth Date:30 January 1939
Birth Place:Celaya, Mexico
Coat Of Arms:Coat of arms of Alberto Suarez Inda.svg
Motto:Spanish; Castilian: Vivimos Para El Señor
(We live for the Lord)
Alberto Suarez Inda
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
Relstyle:Cardinal

Alberto Suárez Inda (born 30 January 1939) is a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Morelia from 1995 to 2016.

Biography

Alberto Suárez Inda was born in Celaya in Mexico on 30 January 1939.

He studied humanities in Morelia and then attended the Pontifical Latin American College in Rome from 1958 until 1965. He was ordained to the priesthood on 8 August 1964 and began serving as a vicar in Morelia and in Pátzcuaro. He also taught before becoming a parish priest for a newly-established parish in his hometown. He later served as the rector for the minor seminary in Celaya from 1974 until his appointment to the episcopate in 1985 when Pope John Paul II named him as the Bishop of Tacámbaro. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 20 December. He became the Archbishop of Morela in 1995 and oversaw the institution of 40 new parish churches.[1]

On 4 January 2015, following his weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis announced that he would make him a cardinal during a consistory to be held on 14 February.[2] At that ceremony, he was assigned the titular church of San Policarpo.[3] In April 2015 he was appointed a member of the Congregation for the Clergy and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (the latter which was dissolved in 2016). He holds his membership in the former body until he turned 80 on 30 January 2019 at which point he also became ineligible to vote as an elector in a future papal conclave.

Pope Francis accepted his retirement from his archdiocese on 5 November 2016.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 30 October 2017. Suárez Inda Card. Alberto. Holy See Press Office. live. 4 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170904064841/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_suarez-inda_a.html.
  2. Web site: Annuncio di Concistoro per la creazione di nuovi Cardinali . Holy See Press Office . 4 January 2015 . it . 6 January 2015.
  3. News: Consistory: list of titular church assignments . 14 February 2015. Vatican Radio. 14 February 2015.
  4. News: 6 November 2016 . es. 5 November 2016 . Aciprensa . El Papa Francisco nombra nuevo Arzobispo para Morelia, en México .