Juan Luis Cipriani
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His Eminence Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Lima | |
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| Archdiocese | Lima |
| See | Lima |
| Appointed | 9 January 1999 |
| Predecessor | Augusto Vargas Alzamora |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of S. Camillo de Lellis Member of Council for the Economy |
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| Ordination | 21 August 1977 |
| Consecration | 3 July 1988 by Juan Landázuri Ricketts |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne |
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28 December 1943 Lima, Peru |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Enrique Cipriani Vargas Isabel Thorne Larrabure |
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| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Lima |
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (born 28 December 1943) is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of two cardinals who are members of Opus Dei, the other being Julián Herranz Casado.
Cardinal Cipriani attended the Colegio Santa Maria Marianistas, a Catholic school, and as a young man he was a member of the Peruvian national basketball team for six years. He studied industrial engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Peru.
After working as an engineer, he was ordained as a priest for the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei in 1977; he also holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Navarra. In his service to the church, he did pastoral work in Lima, taught at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology, and was regional vicar for Peru and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Piura.
In 1988, he was appointed titular Bishop of Turuzi and Auxiliary of Ayacucho, and was promoted to Archbishop of Ayacucho in 1995. During the 1996–1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis, he attempted to negotiate a peaceful settlement, and ministered to Japanese and Peruvian hostages.
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