Alcides Mendoza Castro
Alcides Mendoza Castro ( born March 14, 1928 in Mariscal Cáceres, † June 20, 2012 in Lima) was Archbishop of Cuzco and council father of all sessions of the Second Vatican Council, whose youngest bishop.
Life
Alcides Mendoza Castro joined with 12 years in the minor seminary in Ayacucho and received September 15, 1951 in San Antonio Cathedral by the Bishop of Huancavelica Huancavelica, Carlos Jurgens CSsR, the ordination. He was appointed at the age of 28 years and the Prelate of His Holiness and General Pro-vicar of the Peruvian Military Ordinariate.
Pope Pius XII. appointed him on 28 April 1958 Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Abancay and appointed him titular bishop of Metrae. The Archbishop of Cuzco Carlos Byrne CSsR dedicated it on July 6 of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were Alberto Maria Dettmann y Aragón OP, Bishop of Ica, and Fidel Mario Tubino Mongilardi, Auxiliary Bishop of Lima. He was the youngest at that time with 30 years of the world's youngest bishop and also the age of 34 Bishops of the Second Vatican Council.
He translated with the permission of the Holy See, the Holy Mass and the Missal ( Ordo missae ) in Quechua, an indigenous language variant in the Andean region of South America. He was the first priest in the world that was able to celebrate the Mass in that language.
Pope John XXIII. appointed him on December 5, 1962 the first bishop of Abancay. Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 12 August 1967 Archbishop ad personam of the Peruvian Military Ordinariate and Titular Archbishop of Pederodiana. On 5 October 1983, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop of Cuzco, the 1985 was a guest at the Archdiocese of Cuzco.
On November 29, 2003 John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.
Archbishop Alcides was an annual guest in St. Walburga in Werl and celebrated on Sunday Libori Latin High Mass in the Parish Church of. He had numerous contacts in Germany, which he visited regularly; its 50th anniversary as a bishop he celebrated parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Neuwied - Irlich together with the parish of St. Michael in Feldkirchen.
Awards and honors
He was honored in 2004 with the Peruvian Medalla de Oro de Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. President Alan García in 2008 honored him with the Order of al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos en el Grado de Gran Cruz for his commitment to the people and commitment to the poor.
Writings
- Al Servicio de Dios. Memorias de Monsignor Alcides Mendoza, primer Obispo y de Abancay Arzobispo emerito de Cusco. 2011, together with Carmen Elena Villa Betancourt