Juan Guevara

Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara ( born July 12, 1882 in Villa de Vitor, Peru, † November 27, 1954 in Lima) was Archbishop of Lima.

Life

Juan Gualberto Guevara received his theological and philosophical education in Arequipa and Rome. On 2 June 1906 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a pastor in Arica. When the province of Arica 1910 Chilean territory was, he had to leave the region. From 1910 to 1920 he was chancellor of the Seminary of Arequipa, from 1916 to 1940 he was a journalist and editor of the well-known Peruvian newspaper "El Deber ".

Pope Pius XII. appointed in 1940 to the Bishop of Trujillo. He received his episcopal consecration on March 2, 1941, the then Apostolic Nuncio in Peru and later Cardinal Fernando Cento; Co-consecrators were Felipe Santiago Hermosa y Sarmiento, former Bishop of Cuzco, and the Domingo Juan Vargas OP, Bishop of Huaraz. 1943 he was appointed Archbishop of Trujillo and the beginning of 1945 the appointment as Military Bishop of Peru. On December 16, 1945, he was appointed Archbishop of Lima.

On February 18, 1946, Pope Pius XII. Juan Gualberto Guevara as cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Eusebio to the College of Cardinals. Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara died on 27 November 1954 in Lima and was buried in the local cathedral. In 1950 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order de Isabel la Católica.

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