Rodolfo Quezada Toruño

Styles of
**Rodolfo Quezada Toruño**
Styles of; Rodolfo Quezada Toruño
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Guatemala City (emeritus)

Cardinal Priest
Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born	8 March 1932; Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died	4 June 2012 (aged 80); Guatemala City, Guatemala

Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño (8 March 1932 – 4 June 2012) was a Guatemalan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was

cardinalate

in 2003.

Biography

The oldest of three children, Quezada was born in

University of San Carlos of Guatemala.^[1]

On 5 April 1972, Quezada was appointed

Episcopal Conference from 1988 to 1992, and again from 2002 to 2006.^[3]

Quezada became a national hero by helping to bring to an end the civil war that devastated his country for 36 years.^[1]^[4] He led two organizations that played important roles in forming a peace agreement: the National Reconciliation Commission, which he headed from 1987 to 1993, and the Assembly of the Civil Society, which he headed from 1994 to 1996.^[4] He was also the official conciliator between the government and the guerrillas of the National Revolutionary Unit (1990–1994). His assistant in the peace process, Bishop Juan Gerardi, was murdered in April 1998.^[1]

On 19 June 2001, Quezada was promoted to

2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Within the Roman Curia, he was a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.^[3]

His resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 October 2010, when he was succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala by Archbishop

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapan, also in Guatemala. Cardinal Quezada was then referred to as Archbishop Emeritus of the see. On 8 March 1992, he reached age 80 and ceased to be a cardinal elector.^{[citation needed}

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