Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto

Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto OP ( born September 21, 1920 in Cajabamba, Peru, † October 28, 2010 in Lima) was from 1972 to 1998 Bishop of Puno.

Life

Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto came from a large family and had thirteen siblings. He joined in 1937 the Congregation of the Dominicans in Santo Domingo de Lima monastery at. On June 6, 1940 he made ​​his religious profession and studied philosophy and theology at the Dominican religious school in Cusco. He received 27 December 1947, the ordination. Calderón Barrueto was first deputy teacher at the religious school and completed a study of theology at the Angelicum in Rome. After his return he became novice master and teacher and pastor of missions in the neighboring villages of the city of Cusco. Later he was prior of the monastery of Santo Domingo de Arequipa.

Pope Paul VI. 1969 appointed him titular bishop of Mevania and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Ica. He received his episcopal consecration on 27 April 1969, the Bishop of Ica, Alberto Maria Dettmann y Aragón OP; Co-consecrators were Eduardo Peña Picher, Bishop of Callao, and Javier Miguel Huarte Ariz. OP, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Maldonado. 1972 he was appointed Bishop of Puno by Pope Paul VI. 1998 gave his age-related resignation was accepted.

Calderón Barrueto engaged repeatedly for Human Rights, denounced human rights abuses in his sermons, and stood up for the victims of political violence. He supported the farmers' organizations in the region of Puno in the struggle for land. He was regarded as a precursor of liberation theology in the Catholic Church in the southern Andes.