Sergio Valech

Sergio Valech Aldunate ( born October 21, 1927 in Santiago de Chile, † 24 November 2010) was Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile.

Life

Sergio Valech Aldunate studied at the Seminary of Santiago de Chile and the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He received on 28 June 1953, the ordained priest by the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, José María Caro. He was parish priest and vicar, director of the House of Clergy and professor at the Seminary of Santiago de Chile. The Ordinariate of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, he worked in various positions, most recently as General and Canons of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile.

1973 Pope Paul VI appointed him. Titular Bishop of Zabi and Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile. On October 18, 1973 he donated the Archbishop of Santiago, Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Emilio Tagle Covarrubias, Bishop of Valparaíso, and Fernando Ruiz Ariztia, Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago. His motto was Evangelizare pauperibus ( " bring the good news to the poor "). His age-related resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

Valech Aldunate was president of the eponymous Valech Commission ( Comisión Nacional de Prisión Política y Tortura ), of a truth commission that and in 2001, ten years after the transition to democracy in Chile, President Ricardo Lagos to study the political arrests of torture was convened during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ( 1973-1990 ). 2005, the Commission issued its final report.