- Carlos Oviedo Cavada
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cardinal name=Carlos Cardinal Oviedo Cavada
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See=Santiago de Chile (emeritus )|Carlos Cardinal Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (
January 19 ,1927 —December 7 ,1998 ) was aChile anprelate of theRoman Catholic Church . He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1990 to 1998, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994.Biography
Carlos Oviedo Cavada was born in Santiago, and entered the Order of Mercy on
January 28 ,1944 , taking simple vows onMarch 18 ,1945 andsolemn vows onMarch 19 ,1948 . He entered thePontifical Catholic University of Chile . He was ordained on24 September 1949 in Santiago and later went on to study at thePontifical Gregorian University inRome from 1949 to 1953 where he earned adoctorate incanon law .He was a faculty member and spiritual director, St. Peter Nolasco School and after that a faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile from 1953until 1958. From 1958 until 1961 he worked in the general curia of his order and further studies in the
Vatican Secret Archives .Pope Paul VI appointed himtitular bishop of Benevento and appointed him as anAuxiliary Bishop ofConcepción on21 March 1964 . He attended theSecond Vatican Council from 1964 until the close of the council in 1965. He was promoted to themetropolitan see of Antofagasta in 1974. He was transferred to the metropolitan see ofSantiago de Chile on30 March 1990 .He was created
Cardinal Priest of "S. Maria della Scala " in theconsistory of26 November 1994 byPope John Paul II . He resigned asArchbishop on16 February 1998 , but continued governing archdiocese asApostolic Administrator until a successor was appointed in April of that year. He died in December.
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