Arturo Rivera y Damas
Arturo Rivera y Damas SDB ( born September 30, 1923 in San Esteban Catarina, El Salvador, † November 26, 1994 in San Salvador) was the Archbishop of San Salvador.
Life
Arturo Rivera joined the Congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco and received on September 19, 1953, the ordination.
In 1960 he was called by Pope John XXIII. appointed Titular Bishop of Legia and appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Salvador. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Luis Chávez y González; Co-consecrators were his predecessor Bishop Pedro Aparicio y Arnoldo Quintanilla SDB, and Auxiliary Bishop Rafael Valladares y Argumedo.
In 1977 he was appointed by John Paul II as Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de María. 1983 he was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador; He succeeds the assassinated Óscar Romero.
From 1983 until the peace agreement in 1992 was Bishop Rivera together with the Bishop of the Diocese of Ecuador Santo Domingo de los Colorados, the German Emil Stehle, actively involved in negotiations to end the civil war with the guerrilla organization FMLN. For this he was proposed, together with Bishop Stehle 1994 for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bishop Rivera died in 1994 of a heart attack.