Named Cardinal
(ANS
- Vatican City) – Just after leading the faithful in
praying the Angelus on January 12, Pope Francis announced the names of 19 new
cardinals. One is a Salesian, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello of Santiago,
Chile.
Archbishop
Ezzati was born at Campiglia dei Berici (Vicenza), Italy, on January 7, 1942,
and entered the Salesian novitiate in Quilpué-Valparaiso, Chile, in 1960. After
studying philosophy at the Catholic University of Valparaiso and theology at
the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, he made his perpetual profession on
December 30, 1966, and was ordained on March 18, 1970.
After
ordination he obtained a licentiate in religious studies at the Institut de
Pastorale Catechetique in Strasburg, France, and the qualification of teacher
of religion and philosophy at the Catholic University of Valparaiso.
Fr.
Ezzati was coordinator of youth ministry in the Salesian school in Valdivia;
director of the community in Concepcion; member of the provincial council of
Chile; director of the studentate of philosophy and of the theologate in
Santiago; and provincial of the Chilean Province.
He
also taught in the School of Theology in the Pontifical Catholic University of
Chile and was vice president of the Conference of Religious in Chile. He took
part in the Salesian general chapters in 1984 and 1990. In 1991 he was
appointed an official of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated
Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life of the Holy See.
Appointed
bishop of Valdivia on June 28, 1996, he was ordained bishop the following
September 8. On July 10, 2001, Bishop Ezzati was appointed titular bishop of La
Imperial and auxiliary bishop of Santiago, and on December 27, 2006, he was
promoted to archbishop of Concepcion. In January 2004 he was awarded the Jesus
Maestro Prize by the Interamerican Confederation for Catholic Education for his
contributions to education.
In
2007 Abp. Ezzati became president of the Commission for Education and Culture
of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), and in December 2009 he was
named Person of the Year by the Chilean magazine El Sur. On November 19, 2010,
Abp. Ezzati was elected president of the Episcopal Conference of Chile. He
became archbishop of Santiago on January 17, 2011.
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