Installed 31 March 2009 Ordination 22 April 1973 | Predecessor Ricardo Diaz Guízar Consecration 29 June 1997 Appointed 3 February 2009 | |
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Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla Similar Francisco Robles Ortega, Norberto Rivera Carrera, Alberto Suárez Inda, Jorge Carlos Patrón W | ||
Mensaje del cardenal carlos aguiar retes desde el vaticano
Carlos Aguiar Retes (born 9 January 1950) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, and previously served as the Bishop of Texcoco. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal on November 19, 2016.
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- Mensaje del cardenal carlos aguiar retes desde el vaticano
- Biography
- Priesthood
- Episcopate
- Cardinalate
- References
Biography
Aguiar Retes was born 9 January 1950, in Tepic, Mexico. His parents are Carlos Aguiar Manjarrez and María Teresa Retes Pérez-Sandi; he is the second of their six children. He studied Humanities and Philosophy at the Seminary of Tepic, graduating in 1969, and theology at the Seminary of Montezuma (in New Mexico) through 1972 and the Seminary of Tula, Hidalgo, finishing in 1973.
Priesthood
He was ordained deacon on 24 December 1971. On 22 April 1973 he was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of Tepic. That year he began working as parochial vicar in the Parish of St. Maria Goretti, where he remained until 1974, when he was sent to Rome (1974-1977) to study at the Pontifical College Pio Latino Americano, where he earned a degree in Holy Scriptures in Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He returned to Mexico and was appointed rector of the Seminary of Tepic.
In 1991 he returned to Rome and in 1996 completed a doctorate in biblical theology in the Pontifical Gregorian University, with a thesis "Criticism of the prophets fasting", under the direction of Father Horacio Simian-Yofre. Between 1996 and 1997 he held the chair of Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical University of Mexico, where he was also rector of the John XXIII Residence for Priests.
Episcopate
On 28 May 1997 Pope John Paul II appointed him the third Bishop of Texcoco. He was ordained a bishop on 29 June that year. On 3 February 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named him Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, replacing Monsignor Ricardo Diaz Guízar. He took office on 31 March.
Cardinalate
On October 9, 2016, Pope Francis announced that the Archbishop is one of the 17 new cardinals to be created by November 19, 2016.