Juan Carlos Aramburu

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Alma materPontifical Gregorian University
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His Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeBuenos Aires

Juan Carlos Aramburu (February 11, 1912 – November 18, 2004) was the

Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1975 to 1990, and was named to the College of Cardinals by Pope Paul VI
in 1976.

Biography

Aramburu was born in rural Reducción, in the Province of

Confirmation
to more than 1,000 people in one day.

In 1967 he was named coadjutor archbishop of Buenos Aires, and on April 22, 1975, he was installed as archbishop, succeeding Antonio Caggiano. He was elevated to cardinal one year later, on May 24, 1976.

Aramburu was the second youngest bishop in the history of the Argentine Church, and served for 70 years of priesthood, during which he consecrated ten bishops. At his death, he was the senior bishop by date of consecration in the entire Catholic Church. Active in retirement, he suffered a fatal cardiac failure as he prepared to hear confessions at the Shrine of San Cayetano.

Collaboration with National Reorganization Process

The year of Aramburu's elevation to cardinal coincided with the beginning of the

forced disappearance, wrote to top members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy for help, including Aramburu, but it did not get any response. Also, Aramburu did not denounce the murder of bishop Enrique Angelelli, conducted by a military task force and disguised as a road accident; instead, he claimed that there was no evidence of it being a crime.[1]

In 1982, during a trip to Italy, Aramburu was interviewed by the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero and replied to a question about forced disappearances saying: "I don't understand how this question of guerrillas and terrorism has come up again; it's been over for a long time." On the issue of common graves with unidentified bodies being discovered, he claimed: "In Argentina there are no common graves. ... Everything was recorded in the regular fashion in the books. The common graves belong to people who died without the authorities being able to identify them. Disappeared? Let's not confuse things. You know that there are 'disappeared people' who live quietly in Europe."[1]

In 2002, an organization composed of children of disappeared people organized a protest to accuse Aramburu of

Navy Mechanics School, within his jurisdiction.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Juan Carlos Aramburu, el cardenal que "bendijo" la dictadura argentina". El Mundo.

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Preceded by Archbishop of Buenos Aires
1975–1990 		Succeeded by
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