Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte | |
Honorific Suffix: | O.F.M. |
Archbishop of Trujillo | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Trujillo |
See: | Trujillo |
Appointed: | 29 July 1999 |
Term Start: | 11 September 1999 |
Predecessor: | Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas |
Other Post: | President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (2018-) President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (2019-) |
Ordination: | 7 December 1974 |
Consecration: | 7 August 1988 |
Consecrated By: | Juan Landázuri Ricketts |
Birth Name: | Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte |
Birth Date: | 1948 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Chota, Peru |
Previous Post: | 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) |
Motto: | Gratia 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).
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]
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.[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]