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4 unusual facts about Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa


Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa

On 22 December 1990, Errázuriz Ossa was appointed Titular Archbishop of Hólar and secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

He also refused public calls for an investigation of Father Fernando Karadima and the issue of clergy sexual abuse more generally.

In the same ceremony, three other future cardinals were also consecrated: Jean-Louis Tauran, Vinko Puljić and Julián Herranz Casado.

The other cardinals are Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Vatican City State governorate; Oswald Gracias from India; Reinhard Marx from Germany; Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Seán Patrick O'Malley from the United States; George Pell from Australia; and Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga from Honduras.



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