Pope Francis appointed the Jesuit Gilberto Alfredo Vizcarra, until now Vicar Apostolic of Jaén, a new archbishop of Trujillo in northern Peru.
Thus, the elected archbishop happens in office to Mons. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte (76), who led that jurisdiction since 1999, that is to say for more than 25 years. The Holy Father accepted the resignation of the twice president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) for having exceeded 75 years, the retirement age of the bishops.
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“At the end of this beautiful and important stage of my life and episcopal ministry at the head of this beloved Archdiocese of Trujillo, I want to publicly testify my thanks to God for having granted this grace and there are great responsibility that I assumed with great affection and dedication for 25 years and 5 months, ”said Mons. Cabrejos in a Message of thankspublished today on the CEP Facebook account.
Who is the new archbishop of Trujillo in Peru?
According to the Press Office Del Vaticano, the new archbishop of Trujillo is Mons. Gilberto Alfredo Vizcarra Mori, yes, who was born on February 11, 1960 in Lima, Peru. Today turns 65.
He studied civil law at the Faculty of Pontifical and Civil Theology of Lima and at the National University of San Marcos, also in Lima.
He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and continued his studies of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and those of Theology at the Jesuit Faculty of Belo Horizonte, in Brazil.
He was ordained a priest on July 31, 1994 and made his votes in the Society of Jesus on August 15, 2001.
He has performed the following functions and studies: he graduated in Arabic in Cairo, Egypt (1994-1996); Parish priest of San Pedro and San Pablo in Bitkine, in the apostolic vicariatic of Mongo, Chad (1997-2000); He graduated from the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of Rome (2001-2003); Parish priest of San Ignacio in the Vicariate of Mongo, Chad (2003-2011); Founder and director of the Fe y Alegría project in Chad (2007-2011); and spiritual director at the La Immaculate College of Lima (2013-2014).
On June 11, 2014, he was elected holder of Auttenti and Apostolic Vicar of Jaén in Peru or San Francisco Javier and received the episcopal ordination on August 15, 2014.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.