Alberto Suárez Inda (born 30 January 1939) is a Mexican

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of the

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. He served as Archbishop of Morelia from 1995 to 2016.

Biography

Alberto Suárez Inda was born in

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on 30 January 1939. He studied humanities in Morelia and then attended the Pontifical Latin American College in Rome from 1958 until 1965. He was ordained to the priesthood on 8 August 1964 and began serving as a vicar in Morelia and in Pátzcuaro. He also taught before becoming a parish priest for a newly-established parish in his hometown. He later served as the rector for the minor seminary in Celaya from 1974 until his appointment to the episcopate in 1985 when Pope John Paul II named him as the Bishop of Tacámbaro. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 20 December. He became the Archbishop of Morela in 1995 and oversaw the institution of 40 new parish churches. On 4 January 2015, following his weekly

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address,

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announced that he would make him a cardinal during a

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to be held on 14 February. At that ceremony, he was assigned the titular church of San Policarpo. In April 2015 he was appointed a member of the

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and the

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(the latter which was dissolved in 2016). He holds his membership in the former body until he turned 80 on 30 January 2019 at which point he also became ineligible to vote as an elector in a future papal conclave. Pope Francis accepted his retirement from his archdiocese on 5 November 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suárez Inda, Alberto 1939 births Living people Mexican cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Francis 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Mexico People from Celaya Members of the Congregation for the Clergy Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Roman Catholic archbishops of Morelia 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Mexico