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- Oscar Romero (August 15, 1917 - March 24, 1980) was a prominent Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop in El Salvador during the 1960s and 1970s. After witnessing numerous violations of human rights, he became a spokesperson for the poor and for victims of terrorism by the government of El Salvador.
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CAFOD shares a timeline of information about Archbishop Oscar Romero's life from his birth in 1917 in El Salvador to his martyrdom in in 1980 and his canonisation in 2018.
- Oscar Romero teaching resources for primary schools - CAFOD
Blessed Oscar Romero, the great Archbishop of San Salvador...
- Who was Saint Oscar Romero? - CAFOD
Archbishop Romero was shot dead on 24 March 1980, aged 62,...
- Oscar Romero teaching resources for primary schools - CAFOD
- Early Life
- Priesthood
- Bishop and Archbishop
- Theology
- Assassination
- Legacy
- Sainthood
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Óscar Romero was born on 15 August 1917 to Santos Romero and Guadalupe de Jesús Galdámez in Ciudad Barrios in the San Miguel department of El Salvador. On 11 May 1919, at the age of one, Romero was baptized into the Catholic Church by the priest Cecilio Morales. Romero entered the local public school, which offered only grades one through three. Wh...
Romero entered the minor seminary in San Miguel at the age of thirteen. He left the seminary for three months to return home when his mother became ill after the birth of her eighth child; during this time he worked with two of his brothers in a gold mine near Ciudad Barrios. After graduation, he enrolled in the national seminary in San Salvador. H...
On 25 April 1970, Romero was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Salvador and as the titular bishop of Tambeae. He was consecrated on 21 June by Girolamo Prigione, titular Archbishop of Lauriacum. On 15 October 1974, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de María, a poor, rural region. On 3 February 1977, Romero wa...
According to Jesús Delgado, his biographer and postulator of the cause for his canonization, Romero agreed with the Catholic vision of liberation theology and not with the materialist vision: "A journalist once asked him: 'Do you agree with Liberation Theology' And Romero answered: "Yes, of course. However, there are two theologies of liberation. O...
On 24 March 1980, Archbishop Romero delivered a sermon in which he called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights. Romero spent 24 March in a recollection organized by Opus Dei, a monthly gathering of priest friends led by Fernando Sá...
International recognition
During his first visit to El Salvador in 1983, Pope John Paul IIentered the cathedral in San Salvador and prayed at Romero's tomb, despite opposition from the government and from some within the church who strongly opposed liberation theology. Afterwards, the Pope praised Romero as a "zealous and venerated pastor who tried to stop violence." John Paul II also asked for dialogue between the government and opposition to end El Salvador's civil war. On 7 May 2000, in Rome's Colosseum during the...
Process for beatification
Romero's sainthood cause at the Vatican was opened in 1993, but the Catholic News Service reported that it "was delayed for years as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith studied his writings, amid wider debate over whether he had been killed for his faith or for political reasons." In March 2005, Vincenzo Paglia, the Vatican official in charge of the process, announced that Romero's cause had cleared a theological audit by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the time...
Beatification
On 18 August 2014, Pope Francis said that "[t]he process [of beatification of Romero] was at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, blocked for 'prudential reasons', so they said. Now it is unblocked." Francis stated that "There are no doctrinal problems and it is very important that [the beatification] is done quickly." The beatification signaled Francis' affirmation of Romero's work with the poor and as a major change in the direction of the church since he was elected. In January...
Canonization
Three miracles were submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome in October 2016 that could have led to Romero's canonization. But each of these miracles was rejected after being investigated. A fourth (concerning the pregnant woman Cecilia Maribel Flores) was investigated in a diocesan process in San Salvador that was opened on 31 January 2017 and which concluded its initial investigation on 28 February before documentation was submitted to Rome via the apostolic nunciature...
In Spanish: Óscar Arnulfo Romero para niños 1. List of peace activists 2. List of unsolved murders 3. Misa Campesina Nicaragüense 4. Stanley Rother 5. Salvadoran Civil War 1. Rutilio Grande: assassinated 12 March 1977 2. Alfonso Navarro: assassinated 11 May 1977 3. Ernesto Barrera: assassinated 28 November 1978 4. Octavio Ortiz: assassinated 20 Jan...
Saint Oscar Romero, Salvadoran Roman Catholic archbishop who was a vocal critic of the violent activities of government armed forces, right-wing groups, and leftist guerrillas involved in El Salvador’s civil conflict.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Salvadoran Roman Catholic archbishop Óscar Romero was a vocal critic of the leadership in El Salvador in the 1970s. He spoke out against the violent activities that took place during the country’s civil conflict. Years later, in 2018, Pope Francis I declared Romero a saint.
The story of Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass. Romero was increasingly outspoken about injustice by the corrupt military and...
Blessed Oscar Romero, the great Archbishop of San Salvador was made a saint on 14 October 2018. Use our resources for primary schools to celebrate his life and legacy.
May 23, 2015 · Archbishop Romero was shot dead on 24 March 1980, aged 62, while celebrating Mass. In the ensuing decade, some 70,000 Salvadorans were killed in the civil war. Read our Oscar Romero timeline. Why is he an important figure to commemorate?
