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College of Cardinals Biographical notes [Updated: 06.06.2007]
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| Cardinal Oscar
Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras), was born on 29 December 1942 in Tegucigalpa. He was ordained
for the Salesians on 28 June 1970 and holds a doctorate in theology
from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, and a diploma in
clinical psychology and psychotherapy from Leopold Franz University,
Innsbruck.
He taught chemistry, physics and music at various Salesian colleges in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and was professor of moral theology and ecclesiology at the Salesian Theological Institute, Guatemala, and rector of the Salesian Philosophical Institute in the same country. On 28 October 1978 he was appointed titular Bishop of Pudentiana and Auxiliary of Tegucigalpa, receiving episcopal ordination on 8 December. He was promoted to Archbishop of Tegucigalpa on 8 January 1993 and was President of CELAM (1995-1999). He is currently President of the Episcopal Conference of Honduras. In June 2007, he was elected President of Caritas Internationalis. Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of Santa Maria della Speranza (Our Lady of Hope). Member of:
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