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Juan Sandoval Íñiguez

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Juan Sandoval Íñiguez
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara
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Archdiocese Guadalajara
See Guadalajara
Appointed 21 April 1994
Term ended 7 December 2011
Predecessor Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
Successor José Francisco Robles Ortega
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo Martire
Orders
Ordination 27 October 1957
by Antonio Samorè
Consecration 30 April 1988
by Manuel Talamás Camandari
Created Cardinal 26 November 1994
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1933-03-28) 28 March 1933 (age 84)
Yahualica, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (born 28 March 1933 in Yahualica de González Gallo, Jalisco, Mexico) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and served as Archbishop of Guadalajara.

He is a son of Esteban Sandoval Ruiz and María Guadalupe Íñiguez de Sandoval, and is the eldest of 12 brothers and sisters, of whom 2 died as infants and another was killed.

Sandoval entered the seminary in 1945 and then went to Rome where he continued his studies. He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1957.

In 1961, he returned to Mexico and was assigned to the seminary in Guadalajara, Jalisco, where he worked first as a teacher and then as rector.

In 1988 Sandoval was named Coadjutor bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and succeeded as its bishop in 1992. He was invested as Archbishop of Guadalajara in April 1994, replacing the murdered former incumbent, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, and later that year he was named a cardinal.

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Sandoval has also made regular appearances on the Mexican Catholic network "Mariavisión", which is based in Guadalajara, normally by teaching the catechism during short episodes between regular programming.

On 7 December 2011 his retirement was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI; Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega was appointed his successor.

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that selected Pope Francis. He reached age 80 later in the same month, thus ceasing as an elector.


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