Carlos Aguiar Retes


Carlos Aguiar Retes
Cardinal, Archbishop of Mexico City
Primate of Mexico
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseMexico City
SeeMexico City
Appointed7 December 2017
Installed5 February 2018
PredecessorNorberto Rivera Carrera
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Santi Fabriano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli (since 2016)
Previous post(s)
Orders
Ordination22 April 1973
Consecration29 June 1997
by Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera
Created cardinal19 November 2016
by Pope Francis
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Carlos Aguiar Retes

(1950-01-09) 9 January 1950 (age 74)
Alma mater
MottoQue todos sean uno
(May all be one)
Coat of armsCarlos Aguiar Retes's coat of arms
Ordination history of
Carlos Aguiar Retes
History
Priestly ordination
Date22 April 1973
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecratorAdolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
Co-consecratorsMagín Camerino Torreblanca Reyes
Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota
Date29 June 1997
Cardinalate
Elevated byPope Francis
Date19 November 2016
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Carlos Aguiar Retes as principal consecrator
Luis Artemio Flores Calzada8 September 2003
Víctor René Rodríguez Gomez25 July 2006
Guillermo Francisco Escobar Galicia24 February 2009
Efraín Mendoza Cruz29 July 2011
Jorge Cuapio Bautista27 May 2016
Styles of
Carlos Aguiar Retes
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal

Carlos Aguiar Retes (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos aˈɣjaɾ ˈretes]; born 9 January 1950) is a Mexican cardinal of the Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of Mexico City. He has served as an officer of the Mexican Episcopal Conference and the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) and been president of both. He helped draft the landmark mission statement CELAM issued at the close of its 2007 conference in Aparecida. He was archbishop of Tlalnepantla from 2009 to 2017 and Bishop of Texcoco from 1997 to 2009. David Agren of the Catholic News Service calls him a "longtime ally" of Pope Francis who combines "intellectual finesse with a pastoral passion".[1]

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