René Fernández Apaza

René Fernández Apaza ( born January 9, 1924 in Padilla; † August 14, 2013 in Cochabamba ) was Archbishop of Cochabamba.

Life

René Fernández Apaza received on 28 November 1948 in Buenos Aires to the priesthood.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on March 2, 1968 Bishop of Oruro. The Archbishop of Sucre Cardinal José Clemente Maurer CSsR donated to him on 21 April of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Jorge Manrique Hurtado, Archbishop of La Paz and Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo, Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. On July 30, 1975, he was by Pope Paul VI. appointed Archbishop of Bolivian Military Ordinariate; of this office he resigned on 30 November 1983.

On November 21, 1981, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II Koadjutorerzbischof of Sucre and was followed on May 17, 1986 Josef Clemens Mason after his retirement as Archbishop of Sucre. On April 16, 1988, he was appointed Archbishop of Cochabamba. He also served as president of the Episcopal Commission for Doctrine and Faith of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference.

On 8 July 1999, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation due to age. He died of a heart attack during the morning Mass in the chapel of his house in Cochabamba. He was buried in the Catedral de San Sebastián de Cochabamba.

Honors

• Gran Medalla de Oro city of Cochabamba (1998)