Juan Guevara Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific-Prefix:His Eminence
Juan Gualberto Guevara
Cardinal
Archbishop of Lima
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Lima
See:Lima
Appointed:16 December 1945
Term Start:11 January 1946
Term End:27 November 1954
Predecessor:Pedro Pascual Farfán
Successor:Juan Landázuri Ricketts
Ordination:2 June 1906
Ordained By:Ismaele Puirredón
Consecration:2 March 1941
Consecrated By:Fernando Cento
Cardinal:18 February 1946
Created Cardinal By:Pope Pius XII
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Birth Name:Juan Gualberto Guevara
Birth Date:12 July 1882
Birth Place:Villa de Vitor, Arequipa, Peru
Death Place:Lima, Peru
Buried:Lima Cathedral
Motto:Dominus illuminatio mea
Coat Of Arms:Coat of arms of Juan Gualberto Guevara.svg

Juan Gualberto Guevara B.A. J.C.D. (12 July 1882 – 27 November 1954) was created on 18 February 1946 as a Cardinal Priest by Pope Pius XII. He was Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Cardinal of Peru.

Biography

Early life and education

He was born in Villa de Vitor in the Archdiocese of Arequipa. Educated at the Seminary of San Jerónimo, Arequipa and University of San Agustin. Graduated in 1912 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Finally went to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where in 1922 he earned a doctorate in canon law.

Priesthood

He was ordained on 2 June 1906 in Arequipa, and worked as a parish priest from 1906 until 1910 in Arica, nowadays in Chile. He was expelled by the Chilean Government when it claimed the province that he was working in. He became Vice-rector of the Seminary of Arequipa, in 1910, where he stayed for ten years until 1920. He was named sacristan of the cathedral of Arequipa 1916 - 1920. He worked as staff member of El Deber, the oldest newspaper in southern Peru, 1916–1940 and as its director from 1928 - 1940.

Episcopate

Guevara was appointed Bishop of Trujillo by Pope Pius XII on 15 December 1940. When the diocese of Trujillo was elevated to an archdiocese he became its first archbishop on 23 May 1943. Appointed as Military Vicars of Peru on 13 January 1945 and retained that office until his death. Transferred to the metropolitan see of Lima on 16 December 1945.

Cardinalate

Cardinal Name:Juan Gualberto Guevara
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
See:Lima

Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of Sant'Eusebio in the consistory of 18 February 1946. He was thus the first Peruvian cardinal ever created. Died in 1954 of cancer in Lima. Buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Lima.

Trivia

Guevara once told several mothers of bathing-suit parade contestants that such a parade would be contrary to religion and modesty.[1]

References

  1. TIME Magazine. American Beauty 21 November 1949

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