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Jorge Medina Estévez

His Eminence
Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez
Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
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See San Saba (titular)
Predecessor Jean Jérôme Hamer
Other posts Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (1998 - 2002)
Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile (1993 - 1996)
Bishop of Rancagua, Chile (1987 - 1993)
Titular Bishop of Thibilis (1984 - 1987)
Auxiliary Bishop of Rancagua, Chile (1984 - 1987)
Orders
Ordination 12 June 1954
by Pio Alberto Fariña Fariña
Consecration 6 January 1985
by Pope John Paul II
Created Cardinal February 21, 1998
Personal details
Birth name Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez
Born (1926-12-23) December 23, 1926 (age 90)
Santiago, Chile
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Styles of
Jorge Medina
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Valparaíso (emeritus)

Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez (born December 23, 1926) is a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Cardinal Protodeacon until February 23, 2007, and is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

Medina was born in Santiago in 1926, and studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (where he received a baccalaureate in the arts and biology) and the Major Seminary of Santiago. He was ordained a priest on June 12, 1954, by Bishop Pio Fariña Fariña, the vicar general and an auxiliary bishop of Santiago.

Earning a doctorate in theology in 1955, Medina taught philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary of Santiago and of the Pontifical Catholic University, respectively. He also served as a dean of the university, and as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council; for the latter he later received an honoris causa doctorate from the University of Notre Dame in 1996.

Pro-Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University from 1974 to 1985, he was named titular bishop of Thibilis and auxiliary bishop of Rancagua on December 18, 1984. Medina was consecrated to the episcopate on January 6, 1985 by Pope John Paul II himself, with Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy acting as co-consecrators. He was made Bishop of Rancagua on November 25, 1987 and then Bishop of Valparaíso on April 16, 1993. He was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on June 21, 1996, resigning from his post in Valparaíso on the same day.


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