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2 unusual facts about Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo


Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

In Don Winslow's novel The Power of the Dog the character Father Parada is based on parts of Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo's life and death.

Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (11 November 1926, in Tarimoro, Guanajuato – 24 May 1993, in Guadalajara, Jalisco) was a Mexican bishop of the Catholic Church who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.


Juan Sandoval Íñiguez

He was invested as Archbishop of Guadalajara in April 1994, replacing the murdered former incumbent, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo,and later that year he was named a cardinal.


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