Fr. Pedro de Vivar y Ruiz de Azúa (1742–1820) was a

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and

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. He served as the first

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in 1812. Vivar was born in

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, the son of José de Melchor de Vivar y de la Rocha and of Juana Ruiz de Azúa y Amasa Yturgoyen. He studied

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at the Universidad Real de San Felipe, where he got a doctorate, and was later ordained as a priest. Vivar actively participated in the independence movement in Chile. On October 31, 1812, he was elected the first President of the Consultive Senate of Chile, and remained as such until the closing of the sessions in January 1814, when the Spanish "reconquista" dissolved the domestic institutions. He died in the city of Santiago on 1820, at the age of 78.

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1742 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Chilean Roman Catholic priests 19th-century Chilean Roman Catholic priests Presidents of the Senate of Chile {{Chile-politician-stub