The bishops of Peru elected Mons. Carlos García Camader, Bishop of Lurín, as the new president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) for the period 2025 – 2028.
Also elected as first vice president of the CEP were Mons. Jorge Izaguirre Rafael, Bishop of Chosica; and as second vice president Mons. Luis Barrera Pacheco, Bishop of Callao.
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Mons. Antonio Santarsiero, Bishop of Huacho, has been re-elected as general secretary; and as deputy general secretary, Fr. Guillermo Inca Pereda has also been re-elected.
The 128th Plenary Assembly of the CEP It will continue until Friday, January 24, and little by little the members of its permanent council and the presidents of its 13 commissions and other bodies will be elected.
Who is the new president of the bishops of Peru?
Mons. Carlos García Camader is the new president of the CEP. He was born on August 14, 1954. He is 70 years old.
At the age of 20 he entered the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Seminary in Lima. He studied Philosophy and Theology at the Faculty of Pontifical and Civil Theology in Lima and at the Teresian Institute of the Gregorian University in Rome.
He was ordained a priest on December 8, 1981. Between 1991 and 1996; and then between 1999 and 2002 he was rector of the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Seminary
He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Lima on February 16, 2002. He has been Bishop of Lurín since 2006.
In the CEP he served until now as second vice president. He was part of the Ethics Commission for Justice and Reconciliation (2015-2017) that collected testimonies of abuses from the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana (SVC).
Who is the first vice president of the bishops of Peru?
Bishop Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael is the first vice president of the CEP. He was born on January 14, 1968 in Casma, Áncash. He is 57 years old.
He was ordained a priest on February 15, 1997. He has a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Theology from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Boston, United States.
His priestly ministry was exercised as parochial vicar of the Santa Cruz de Chimbote parish and rector of the San José Formation House in Canto Grande de Chosica, in the El Señor de la Esperanza Parish.
He was appointed Prelate Bishop of Chuquibamba on May 11, 2015. He has been Bishop of Chosica since the end of 2023.
Who is the second vice president of the bishops of Peru?
Mons. Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco is the second vice president of the CEP. He was born on November 16, 1966, in Gorgor, Cajatambo district, in the department of Lima. He is 58 years old.
He was ordained a Comboni missionary priest on June 10, 1995.
He was appointed Bishop of Tarma on October 26, 2016. He has been Bishop of Callao since May 2021.
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