Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte Explained

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).

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. 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 22 December 2023 . Mons. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte ofm arzobispo metropolitano de Trujillo (Perú) . es . General Curia of the Friars Minor, Rome . 30 July 1999 .
  2. Rinunce e Nomine, 05.07.2004 . it . Holy See Press Office . 5 July 2004 . 10 October 2019.
  3. News: Crux . 10 October 2019 . 16 May 2019 . Peruvian archbishop elected new president of CELAM . Catholic News Service . 10 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191010025518/https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2019/05/16/peruvian-archbishop-elected-new-president-of-celam/ . dead .
  4. News: America. 9 October 2019 . Here's what happened on the first day of the Amazon Synod . 8 October 2019 . Luke . Hansen.