Fernando Lugo
| Fernando Lugo | |
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| Senator of Paraguay | |
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Assumed office 30 June 2013 |
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| President of Paraguay | |
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In office 15 August 2008 – 22 June 2012 |
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| Vice President | Federico Franco |
| Preceded by | Nicanor Duarte |
| Succeeded by | Federico Franco |
| President pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations | |
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In office 29 October 2011 – 22 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Bharrat Jagdeo |
| Succeeded by | Ollanta Humala |
| Bishop of San Pedro | |
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In office 5 March 1994 – 11 January 2005 |
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| Appointed by | Pope John Paul II |
| Preceded by | Adalberto Martínez Flores |
| Succeeded by | Oscar Páez Garcete |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez 30 May 1951 San Solano, Paraguay |
| Political party |
Patriotic Alliance for Change (2007–2010) Frente Guasú (2010– ) |
| Children | Guillermo Armindo Lugo Carrillo |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Our Lady of Asuncion |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (Spanish pronunciation: [ferˈnando arˈmindo ˈluɣo ˈmendes]; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005. He was elected as President in 2008. In 2012, he was removed from office through an impeachment process that neighboring countries deemed a coup d'état. In 2013, he was elected to the Paraguayan Senate in general elections.
He received his basic education at a religious school in Encarnación, and sold snacks on the streets.
His family was not particularly religious; by his own account, he never saw his father set foot in a church. However, they were active in politics, in opposition to the Stroessner dictatorship. His maternal uncle, Epifanio Méndes Fleitas, was a Colorado Party dissident and was persecuted and exiled by the regime. Fernando's father was imprisoned twenty times, and some of his elder siblings were sent into exile.
His father wanted Lugo to become a lawyer, but at 18 Lugo entered a normal school, and began teaching in a rural community. He was well accepted by the community, which was very religious, but they had no priest. He said later that he was touched by that experience, and so discovered his vocation to the Roman Catholic priesthood. At age 19 he entered a seminary operated by the Society of the Divine Word. He was ordained a priest for the society on 15 August 1977. He was sent to Ecuador, where he served as a missionary for five years. In Ecuador he learned about liberation theology.
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