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José Luis Escobar Alas (born 10 March 1959 in Suchitoto), Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, succeeded

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as the seventh archbishop, a successor of Archbishop

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who was assassinated in 1980. Archbishop Escobar served as

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of San Vicente since 2005, prior to his elevation as archbishop on 27 December 2008. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop (also in the diocese of San Vicente) from 2002, having entered the priesthood in 1982. Escobar was born in the town of Suchitoto in the department of Cuzcatlán. He studied for the priesthood at San José de la Montaña Seminary in San Salvador before entering the Seminario Mayor de

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. He later graduated with a philosophy degree from the

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. He was

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a priest on August 15, 1982. Thereafter, he was

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of the San Vicente Diocesan Seminary before teaching at San José de la Montaña Seminary in San Salvador, after which he was appointed to the ''Nuestra Señora del Pilar'' (Our Lady of the Pillar)

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in San Vicente. Escobar served as

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of the diocese of San Vicente before being named an Auxiliary Bishop by Pope

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on January 19, 2002. He was consecrated as an Auxiliary Bishop on March 23, 2002 and then was promoted

of San Vicente on July 9, 2005, where he served until becoming

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in 2006. In late December 2012, the Archbishop Escobar authorised the removal of the tiled ceramic mural façade of the

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, El Salvador's principal basilica, without consultation with the national government nor the artist, Fernando Llort. This resulted in the destruction of all the 2,700 tiles of the

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which depicted former archbishop

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Catholic-Hierarchy - José Luis Escobar Alas

{{DEFAULTSORT:Escobar Alas, Jose Luis 1959 births Living people People from Cuscatlán Department Roman Catholic archbishops of San Salvador 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in El Salvador Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Salvadoran Roman Catholic bishops Roman Catholic bishops of San Vicente

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