Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador
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The Archdiocese of San Salvador is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. Its archepiscopal see is the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador, and the surrounding region.
The current Archbishop of San Salvador is José Luis Escobar Alas. His cathedra is in Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, otherwise the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Script error: No such module "Lang".). The city also has a former cathedral, now the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Template:Langx), and a minor basilica dedicated to the Virgin of Guadelupe, the Script error: No such module "Lang".. The Archdiocese of San Salvador is the sole metropolitan see in El Salvador, with seven suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province: the Dioceses of Chalatenango, San Miguel, San Vicente, Santa Ana, Santiago de María, Sonsonate, and Zacatecoluca.
The Archdiocese of San Salvador has an unusual arrangement in which the auxiliary bishop, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, is a cardinal, whilst the archbishop is not. The Archbishop of San Salvador retains ordinary authority over the archdiocese.
Statistics
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History
What is currently the territory of the Republic of El Salvador previously was part of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General (governorship) of Guatemala and, ecclesiastically, of the Archdiocese of Guatemala. Until 1842, there were four church regions in El Salvador, which reported to the San Salvador region, the most important one: Santa Ana, Sonsonate, San Vicente and San Miguel.
- Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of the Divine Savior (in Spanish, El Salvador means "The Savior"), separating the territory of the Republic of El Salvador from the Archdiocese of Guatemala, by Papal bull dated 28 September 1842, constituting it as a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guatemala.
- On 22 February 1913, it was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador / Sancti Salvatoris in America (Latin), having lost territory to establish as first suffragan sees Diocese of San Miguel and Diocese of Santa Ana
- It lost territories again on 18 December 1943, to establish Diocese of San Vicente, and on 30 December 1987, to establish Diocese of Chalatenango, both as its suffragans.
- Pope John Paul II undertook papal visits to the diocese in March 1983 and February 1996.
Twentieth Century policy
Under three archbishops, Luis Chávez y González, Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, and Arturo Rivera y Damas, the archdiocese saw over fifty years of a progressive pastoral ministry influenced by the currents of the Second Vatican Council and a Latin American church trend that later was known as Liberation Theology. Critics interpreted the Church's advocacy for the poor as fomenting a socialist revolution and targeted the clergy for assassination. Two bishops, including Archbishop Romero, were assassinated, as were twenty six priests (including Fr. Rutilio Grande), three nuns and countless catechists and Church workers.
The post-Civil War period saw a return to traditional spirituality under the watch of the conservative Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, a former military chaplain and member of Opus Dei.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Sexual abuse cases
In November 2015, sex abuse scandals in the Archdiocese of San Salvador became public[1] when the archdiocese's third highest ranking priest, Jesus Delgado, who was also the biographer and personal secretary of the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero[2] was dismissed by the archdiocese after its investigation showed that he had molested a girl, now 42 years of age, when she was between the ages of 9 and 17.[2] Due to the statute of limitations, Delgado could not face criminal charges.[3] In December 2016, a canonical court convicted Delgado and two other El Salvador priests, Francisco Galvez and Antonio Molina, of committing acts of sex abuse between the years 1980 and 2000 and laicized them from the priesthood.[1][4][5][3] In November 2019, the archdiocese acknowledged sex abuse committed by a priest identified as Leopoldo Sosa Tolentino in 1994 and issued a public apology to his victim. Tolentino was suspended from ministry and began the canonical trial process.[6] Another El Salvador priest was laicized in 2019 after pleading guilty to sex abuse in a Vatican trial and is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted in a criminal trial.[1]
Ecclesiastical province
The ecclesiastical province of San Salvador comprises the whole country, consisting of the Metropolitan's archbishopric and the following suffragan sees:
- Diocese of Chalatenango
- Diocese of San Miguel
- Diocese of San Vicente
- Diocese of Santa Ana
- Diocese of Santiago de María
- Diocese of Sonsonate
- Diocese of Zacatecoluca
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Bishops of San Salvador
| Bishop | Term start | Term end | Appointed by | Ref. | ||
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| 1 | José Jorge de Viteri y Ungo (1802–1853) |
27 JanuaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1843 |
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Gregory XVI | [7] | |
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| 2 | Tomas Miguel Pineda y Saldaña (1791–1875) |
10 MarchScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1853 |
6 AugustScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1875 |
Pius IX | [8] | |
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| 3 | José Luis Cárcamo y Rodríguez (1836–1885) |
6 AugustScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1875 |
12 SeptemberScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1885 |
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| 4 | Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar (1839–1926) |
13 JanuaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1888 |
11 FebruaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1913 |
Leo XIII | [10] | |
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- Archbishops of San Salvador
| Archbishop | Term start | Term end | Appointed by | Ref. | ||
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| 4 | Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar (1839–1926) |
11 FebruaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1913 |
17 AprilScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1926 |
Pius X | [10] | |
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| 5 | José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (1873–1938) |
22 DecemberScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1927 |
9 AugustScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1938 |
Pius XI | [11] | |
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| 6 | Luis Chávez y González (1901–1987) |
1 SeptemberScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1938 |
3 FebruaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1977 |
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| 7 | Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1917–1980) |
3 FebruaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1977 |
24 MarchScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1980 |
Paul VI | [13] | |
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| 8 | Arturo Rivera y Damas S.D.B. (1923–1994) |
28 FebruaryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1983 |
26 NovemberScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1994 |
John Paul II | [14] | |
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| 9 | Fernando Sáenz Lacalle (1932–2022) |
22 AprilScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1995 |
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| 10 | José Luis Escobar Alas (1959–) |
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Incumbent | Benedict XVI | [16] | |
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Coadjutor Bishops
- Mariano Ortiz y Urruela (1866–1873)
- Luis Cárcamo y Rodríguez (1871–1875) (overlapped with Ortiz y Urrela)
Auxiliary Bishops
- Tomás Miguel Pineda y Saldaña (1848–1853), appointed Bishop here
- Santiago Ricardo Vilanova y Meléndez (1913–1915), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
- José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (1919–1927), appointed Archbishop here
- Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B. (1946–1948), appointed Bishop of San Vicente
- Rafael Valladares y Argumedo (1956–1961)
- Arturo Rivera y Damas (1960–1977), appointed Bishop of Santiago de María and later Archbishop of San Salvador
- José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M. (1965–1969), appointed Bishop of San Miguel
- Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1970–1974), appointed Bishop of Santiago de María
- Marco René Revelo Contreras (1978–1981), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
- Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez (1982–present); elevated to Cardinal in 2017
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Juan Antonio Dueñas y Argumedo, appointed Bishop of San Miguel in 1913
- Francisco José Castro y Ramírez, appointed Bishop of Santiago de María in 1956
- William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera, appointed Bishop of Santiago de María in 2016
See also
References
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External links
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- Roman Catholic dioceses in El Salvador
- Roman Catholic archbishops of San Salvador
- Religious organizations established in 1842
- Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
- 1842 establishments in El Salvador
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of San Salvador