Gregorio Rosa Chávez
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Motto | Christus pax nostra (Christ is our peace) |
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Informal style | Cardinal |
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Gregorio Rosa Chávez (Spanish pronunciation:
Pope Francis made Rosa a cardinal on 28 June 2017 and he is the first cardinal from El Salvador. It is rare for the pope to name an auxiliary bishop as a cardinal as the bishop or archbishop of a diocese typically is afforded that distinction.[3] In archdiocesan affairs the archbishop still has precedence, but Rosa ranks higher in the official structure.[4][5] Besides his native Spanish, he can speak French and has some knowledge of both English and Portuguese.[citation needed]
Life
Gregorio Rosa Chávez was born on 3 September 1942 in
On 17 February 1982,
On 21 May 2017, Pope Francis announced that he would make Rosa a cardinal. He received the news at 5:00am in a telephone call and later told the press: "I thought it was a joke. I never thought that this could happen to me".[5] Shortly after he received the news, Chávez visited to the tomb of Romero. Rosa attributed his appointment as a cardinal as a recognition and an honor reserved for Romero. He said that he believed that Romero was a cardinal in his blood and he therefore would be named as one in Romero's name.[7] Rosa was elevated as the Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Sacramento a Tor de' Schiavi on 28 June 2017. He took formal possession of his titular church on 2 July. At a Mass on 8 July 2017 he said that Pope Francis had asked him to go to Seoul in South Korea for a meeting on how to achieve peace with their neighbor North Korea.[2] Francis made him a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on 23 December 2017.[8]
Rosa has been outspoken in the past about government abuses and once named alleged killers of six
He begins in the morning listening to Vatican Radio and does not go to sleep until he has read important national and international newspapers. He is the President of Caritas El Salvador and Caritas Latin America.[3] He is the pastor at the San Francisco parish church.
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as auxiliary bishop on 4 October 2022.[9]
Óscar Romero
Rosa first met Óscar Romero circa 1956 while Romero was a priest and the former was a
Rosa has been a vocal advocate for the canonization of Óscar Romero and attended his beatification in mid-2015.
He confirmed on his Facebook page in a post that he had an evening discussion with Pope Francis who alluded to the fact that he might visit El Salvador in 2018 to canonize Romero.[10] However, Rosa Chávez later confirmed in a recording the archdiocese released not long after that the post was false and that he did not have social media pages. He said that no papal visit nor canonization was scheduled.[11]
Coat of arms
The new coat of arms for Rosa Chávez was unveiled in the week leading up to his elevation as a cardinal. The shield is split into quarters with a golden star representing his devotion to the
The bottom-left depicts rosemary which acknowledges Saint Óscar Romero who used that image on his own coat of arms. The bottom-right has two hands shaking one another as a means of depicting an option for the poor which is a dimension of the social magisterium that appeals to Rosa Chávez.[12]
References
- ^ "Gregorio Rosa Chávez". Salvadoraran Bishops Conference. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ a b c Junno Arocho Esteves (11 July 2017). "Salvadoran cardinal: Pope sending him to Korea to work for peace". CRUX. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Consistory of June 28, 2017 (IV)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. 2017. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "Pope names new cardinals from Laos, Mali, Sweden, Spain and El Salvador". CRUX. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d Joe Slama (21 June 2017). "El Salvador's first cardinal a friend of Blessed Oscar Romero". Catholic News Agency/EWTN News. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXIV. 1982. p. 641. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Gregorio Rosa Chávez: I will be a cardinal on behalf of Romero". Rome Reports. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 23.12.2017" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
- ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 04.10.2022" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ "Cardenal Rosa Chávez confirma posiblemente llegada del Papa Francisco a El Salvador". Solo Noticias. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "El Salvador cardinal says Facebook account posting Romero rumors is not his". Catholic News Agency. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "Shield of Cardinal-elect Gregorio Rosa Chavez". The Archbishop Romero Trust. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
External links
- "Rosa Chávez Card. Gregorio". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- Droujinina, Marina (28 June 2017). "Salvador: Mgr Gregorio Rosa Chávez, créé cardinal". Zenit (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2017.
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