This Saturday, August 24, Pope Francis named Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo, Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas (Venezuela) as his Pontifical Legate for the Quito 2024 International Eucharistic Congress, which will be held in Ecuador from September 8 to 15 of this year.
The Press Office of the Vatican reported that the Eucharistic congress is being held in the South American country “on the 150th anniversary of the consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus”; and that on the last day of the event “there will be World Station”.
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Vatican News points out that the World Station It is “a massive Mass that will mark the closing of the Congress and in which the venue of the next event, which will take place in four years, will be announced.”
Who is Cardinal Baltazar Porras?
Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo was born on October 10, 1944 in Caracas. He is 79 years old.
He was ordained a priest on July 30, 1967. He holds a Doctor in Pastoral Theology from the University of Salamanca (Spain).
He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida on July 30, 1983 and received episcopal consecration on September 17 of the same year. He was named Archbishop of Mérida on October 30, 1991.
Pope Francis created him Cardinal on November 19, 2016. In the Vatican Curia he is a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America; and of the Dicasteries for the Clergy; Laity, Family and Life; and Culture and Education.
In 2019 he was President delegate to the Amazon Synod at the Vatican.
He was named Archbishop of Caracas on January 17, 2023, at the age of 78, a position he held until his resignation on June 28, 2024.
International Eucharistic Congress Quito 2024
The International Eucharistic Congress (IEC Quito 2024)which will take place from September 8 to 15, has as its theme Fraternity to heal the world.
Before the congress itself, a theological symposium will be held in Quito from September 4 to 7.
Registration for the International Eucharistic Congress, both for the symposium and for the congress itself, opened on January 31 and can be done through the event website: https://www.iec2024.ec/
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.