Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte,
O.F.M. (born 5 July 1948) is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the
Archbishop of Trujillo since 1999. He has been a bishop since 1988 and currently heads the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM).
Biography
Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte was born in
Chota on 5 July 1948. He took his vows as a Franciscan on 29 June 1974 and on 7 December 1991 he was ordained a priest of that order.
On 20 June 1988,
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
named him auxiliary bishop of Lima. He received his episcopal consecration on 7 August from Cardinal
Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima. On 6 February 1996, Pope John Paul named him head of the
Military Ordinariate of Peru
The Military Bishopric of Peru ( es, Obispado Castrense del Perú) is a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church. Immediately exempt to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Catholics serving in the Peruvian Armed Forces ...
and then on 29 July 1999 Archbishop of Trujillo. Pope John Paul appointed him to serve as a member of the
Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 5 July 2004.
He was president of the Peruvian Bishops Conference from 2009 to 2012 and began serving another term in that in 2018. He was elected to a four-year term as president of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM) in May 2019.
He was a participant in the
Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document.
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Living people
1948 births
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Peru
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Peru
Roman Catholic archbishops of Trujillo
Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II