Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M. (born 5 July 1948) is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Trujillo from 1999 to 2025. He has been a bishop since 1988 and currently heads the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM).

Biography

Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte was born in Chota on 5 July 1948. He took his vows as a Franciscan on 29 June 1974 and on 7 December 1991 he was ordained a priest of that order. On 20 June 1988,

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named him auxiliary bishop of Lima. He received his episcopal consecration on 7 August from Cardinal

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, Archbishop of Lima. On 6 February 1996, Pope John Paul named him head of the

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where he took office on 7 March 1998. On 29 July 1999 he was named Archbishop of Trujillo. Pope John Paul named him a member of the

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on 5 July 2004. He was president of the Peruvian Bishops Conference from 2009 to 2012, and he began another term in that in 2018. He was elected to a four-year term as president of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM) in May 2019. He was a participant in the

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in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document. Cabrejas submitted his resignation as archbishop to

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in 2023 as he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. He also stepped down from the Peruvian Episcopal Conference in January 2025. On 11 February 2025, his resignation was accepted by the Vatican amid criticism over his failure to stop abuses by the Catholic organization

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when he was president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.

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