Óscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War.
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- Born in
- Ciudad Barrios
- Educated at
- Pontifical Gregorian University
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- 🏆 Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
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1917
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