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Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo

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Church
  
Roman Catholic Church

Ordination
  
July 30, 1967

Name
  
Baltazar Porras

In office
  
1991- present

See
  
Archdiocese of Merida


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Born
  
October 10, 1944 Caracas (
1944-10-10
)

Role
  
Archbishop of Archdiocese of Merida

Predecessor
  
Miguel Antonio Salas Salas

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (born 10 October 1944) is a Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal and the current Archbishop of Mérida. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1967 and later consecrated to the episcopate in 1983 while Pope Francis created him a cardinal on 19 November 2016.

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He is the Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio.

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Life

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo was born on 10 October 1944 in Caracas.

He was ordained to the priesthood on 30 July 1967. He was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida on 23 July 1983 and as such received his episcopal consecration on 17 September 1983 from Cardinal José Lebrún Moratinos. He was later appointed as the Archbishop of Mérida on 31 October 1991 and replaced Miguel Antonio Salas Salas who had ordained him as a priest. In June 2009 he and other Venezuelan bishops visited Pope Benedict XVI for their "ad limina" visit.

Pope Francis - in his Angelus address on 9 October 2016 - announced that he would create him as a cardinal on 19 November 2016.

References

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo Wikipedia