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unusual facts about Archbishop of Buenos Aires



Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later Archbishop of Buenos Aires, cardinal and Pope Francis, attended and graduated from the school.

Movement of Priests for the Third World

The same year, the Movement issued a declaration supporting Socialist revolutionary movements, which led to the Catholic hierarchy, through Juan Carlos Aramburu, coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires, to proscribe priests from making political or social declarations.


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Adolfo Armando Uriona

Uriona received his episcopal consecration on the following May 8 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, and bishop of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires, Miguel Mykycej, serving as co-consecrators.

Christ the Redeemer of the Andes

President Roca of Argentina and President Germán Riesco of Chile were unable to attend but their foreign ministers were present, along with the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the bishops of Cuyo, Argentina and Ancud, Chile.

Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche

Salaberry Goyeneche received his episcopal consecration on the following August 21 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with bishop emeritus of Azul, Emilio Bianchi di Cárcano, and archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Guillermo José Garlatti, serving as co-consecrators.

Manuel Tato

Tato received his episcopal consecration on March 27, 1949 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the archbishop of Santa Fe, Nicolás Fasolino, who would later become a cardinal, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, serving as co-consecrators.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

Solari received his episcopal consecration on the following November 11 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Miguel de Andrea, serving as co-consecrators.

Vicente Bokalic Iglic

Iglic received his episcopal consecration on the following May 29 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with archbishop of Corrientes, Andrés Stanovnik, and bishop of Santa Rosa, Mario Aurelio Poli, serving as co-consecrators.