Archbishops of Lima - Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Juan Landazuri Ricketts, Emilio Lisson, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima (Paperback)

Chapters: Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Juan Landazuri Ricketts, Emilio Lisson, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima, Augusto Vargas Alzamora. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (born in Lima, 28 December 1943) is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church. Along with Julian Cardinal Herranz Casado, he is one of two cardinals who are members of Opus Dei. Cipriani attended the Colegio Santa Maria Marianistas, a Catholic school, and as a young man he was a champion basketball player. He studied industrial engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in Lima, Peru. After working as an engineer, he was ordained as a priest for the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei in 1977; he also holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Navarra. In his service to the church, he did pastoral work in Lima, taught at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology, and was regional vicar for Peru and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Piura. In 1988, he was appointed titular Bishop of Turuzi and Auxiliary of Ayacucho, and was promoted to Archbishop of Ayacucho in 1995. During the 19961997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis, he attempted to negotiate a peaceful settlement, and ministered to Japanese and Peruvian hostages. Named Archbishop of Lima in 1999, Cipriani Thorne was proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of San Camillo de Lellis by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, with the title Cardinal Priest of San Camillo de Lellis. His appointment met with protests from a considerable section of center- and left-leaning groups and Christians in Peru due to his close connections with the right-wing regime of Alberto Fujimori. During his first mass as cardinal, representatives of these groups ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=168810