Alberto Suárez Inda

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Bishop of Tacámbaro (1985-95)
Alma mater
MottoVivimos Para El Señor
(We live for the Lord)
Coat of armsAlberto Suárez Inda's coat of arms
Ordination history of
Alberto Suárez Inda
History
Priestly ordination
Date8 August 1964
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecratorGirolamo Prigione
Co-consecratorsEstanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa
Luis Morales Reyes
Date20 December 1985
Cardinalate
Elevated byPope Francis
Date14 February 2015
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Alberto Suárez Inda as principal consecrator
Leopoldo González González19 May 1999
Francisco Moreno Barrón20 March 2002
Salvador Rangel Mendoza, O.F.M.5 June 2009
Juan Espinoza Jimenéz22 February 2011
Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma25 February 2016
Herculano Medina Garfias25 February 2016
Styles of
Alberto Suarez Inda
Your Eminence
Informal styleCardinal

Alberto Suárez Inda (born 30 January 1939) is a

Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Morelia
from 1995 to 2016.

Biography

Alberto Suárez Inda was born in Celaya in Mexico on 30 January 1939.

He studied humanities in Morelia and then attended the Pontifical Latin American College in Rome from 1958 until 1965. He was ordained to the priesthood on 8 August 1964 and began serving as a vicar in Morelia and in Pátzcuaro. He also taught before becoming a parish priest for a newly-established parish in his hometown. He later served as the rector for the minor seminary in Celaya from 1974 until his appointment to the episcopate in 1985 when Pope John Paul II named him as the Bishop of Tacámbaro. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 20 December. He became the Archbishop of Morela in 1995 and oversaw the institution of 40 new parish churches.[1]

On 4 January 2015, following his weekly

Congregation for the Clergy and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (the latter which was dissolved in 2016). He holds his membership in the former body until he turned 80 on 30 January 2019 at which point he also became ineligible to vote as an elector in a future papal conclave
.

Pope Francis accepted his retirement from his archdiocese on 5 November 2016.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Suárez Inda Card. Alberto". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Annuncio di Concistoro per la creazione di nuovi Cardinali" (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Consistory: list of titular church assignments". Vatican Radio. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  4. ^ "El Papa Francisco nombra nuevo Arzobispo para Morelia, en México". Aciprensa (in Spanish). 5 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Bishop of Tacambaro

1985-1995
Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of Morelia
1995 - 2016
Succeeded by
Preceded by
None; titular church established
Cardinal Priest of San Policarpo Incumbent