Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno (; born 12 February 1944) is a Peruvian prelate of the

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who has been

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Huancayo Huancayo (; in qu, label=Wanka Quechua, Wankayuq , '(place) with a (sacred) rock') is the capital of Junín Region, in the central highlands of Peru. Location Huancayo is located in Huancayo Province, of which it is also the capital. Sit ...

since 2004 and a

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since 2018.

Biography

Barreto was born in Lima, Peru, on 12 February 1944 and entered the Jesuit novitiate there. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit faculty in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and theology in Lima. He was ordained a priest of the

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on 18 December 1971 and took his final vows as a Jesuit on 3 October 1976. On 21 November 2001,

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named him titular bishop of

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and Apostolic Administrator of Jaén in Peru. He was consecrated a bishop on 1 January 2002. On 17 July 2004, John Paul appointed him Archbishop of Huancayo and he was installed there on 5 September. He has headed the Justice and Peace Section of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM). He has fought the mining industry over its environmental impact on

La Oroya La Oroya is a city on the River Mantaro in central Peru. It is situated on the Andes some 176 km east-north-east of the national capital, Lima, and is capital of the Yauli Province. La Oroya is the location of a smelting operation that ear ...

. He has been vice president of the

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(REPAM) and was a member of the organizing committee for the Pan-Amazon Synod of Bishops. On 29 September 2012,

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made him a member of the

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made Barreto a

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in the consistory of 28 June 2018, assigning him the titular church of

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. In 2019 at the Synod of Bishops he said that those who oppose Pope Francis “want a static church, a church of doctrine, more than one of pastoral action. They want a church that is different to the one Jesus wants, which is a church of solidarity, a church that really responds to the needs of people, and of nature itself.”

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