Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas
Manuel Prado - Rosas Perez, SJ ( born May 26, 1923 in Lima, † 9 October, 2011 Huachipa / Lima) was a Peruvian priest and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Trujillo.
Life
Manuel Prado Perez- Rosas joined the Congregation of the Jesuits and received on 13 July 1956, the ordination. Many years he was novice master of the monastic house in Huachipa and rector of the Colegio San José de Arequipa was later pastor in San Ignacio de Piura. He was university chaplain of Grupo Universitario Católico ( Gruca ) of the city of Trujillo.
Pope Paul VI. appointed him on September 7, 1970 Bishop of Chachapoyas. The Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts, OFM, gave him on 7 October 1970, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Ricardo Durand Flórez SJ, Bishop of Cuzco, and Erasmo Hinojosa Hurtado, Archbishop of Piura. On 29 December 1976 he was appointed Archbishop of Trujillo. On 29 July 1999, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.
Work
He was much involved after Vatican II in the organization of the Latin American bishops' conferences in Puebla (1979) and Santo Domingo ( 1992). He was vice president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference and President of the Episcopal Commission for seminaries and vocations. In 2002 he by the Peruvian Bishops' Conference of the gold medal Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo ( Medalla de Oro de Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo ) was awarded.
He built the diocesan seminary of San Carlos y San Marcelo again, that was until his appointment in Trujillo closed for 12 years; The seminar was a model seminar in Peru.
Prado stayed several times and for long periods of time in various locations around in the Archdiocese of Trujillo. In particular, he lived because of the ongoing terrorist violence with teachers and farmers in villages of the highlands Libertad as Angasmarca, Cachicadan, Tulpo, Santiago de Chuco, Quiruvilca, Chuquisongo, Usquil, Otusco. During the cholera epidemic in 1991, he presented the government's entire infrastructure of its diocesan facilities. During the military dictatorship in 1977 and 1980, he campaigned for the civilian population.