Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (born 12 November 1912 in Cotacachi, Imbabura,

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

and died on 6 April 2000 in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

) was a

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Cardinal.

Biography

He joined the

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in 1928, and was ordained in 1937. He attended the

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and obtained a B.A. degree in philosophy in 1941. Upon graduation he returned to Ecuador and performed many duties for the Franciscan order, started a religious magazine and established houses to care for the poor. He was appointed Bishop of Ambato in 1949, then as Archbishop of Guayaquil in 1969 and retired in 1989. He was a member of the International Academy of Franciscan History and was made a Cardinal by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

in 1994. He was a member of the Marian Movement of Priests and provided his ''

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'' for Father Stefano Gobbi's book: ''To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons.''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Echeverria Ruiz, Bernardino 1912 births 2000 deaths People from Cotacachi (city) Participants in the Second Vatican Council 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ecuador Ecuadorian cardinals Ecuadorian Friars Minor Franciscan cardinals Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II Roman Catholic bishops of Ambato Roman Catholic archbishops of Guayaquil