Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Catholic cardinal
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Place of Birth: Lima, Peru
About Augusto Vargas Alzamora
- Augusto Vargas Alzamora S.J.
- (9 November 1922 – 4 September 2000) was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1940.
- He studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in San Miguel, Argentina and Madrid.
- He continued his studies in Granada, Spain and the University of San Marcos, Lima, where he received his doctorate in education.
- Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Cissi and apostolic vicar of Jaén, Peru on 8 June 1978.
- In 1982 he was elected secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Peru, and was reelected twice more.
- He was to become its president from 1993 to 1999.
- He resigned the pastoral government of the vicariate in 1985.
- In 1989 Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Lima, where he stayed until he retired in 1999.
- Pope John Paul elevated him to the cardinalate in the consistory of 26 November 1994, making him Cardinal Priest of S.
- Roberto Bellarmino.
- After he retired as Archbishop he continued until his death ministering at a homeless shelter he founded in Lima. As Archbishop of Lima, he frequently clashed with Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, demanding that the president observe human rights and democratic forms, and, at a later stage, over the president's pushing of family planning programmes.
- He campaigned openly against Fujimori's election.
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