Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
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His Eminence Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga SDB |
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| Archdiocese | Tegucigalpa |
| See | Tegucigalpa |
| Appointed | 8 January 1993 |
| Predecessor | Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Speranza Coordinator of the Council of Cardinals |
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| Ordination | 28 June 1970 by Girolamo Prigione |
| Consecration | 8 December 1978 by Gabriel Montalvo Higuera |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga |
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December 29, 1942 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Mihi Vivere Christus Est |
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Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. (born December 29, 1942) is a Salesian and Cardinal of the Catholic Church from Honduras. He is the current Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, President of Caritas Internationalis and was President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999. Rodríguez was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. He was the Vatican's spokesman with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, on the issue of Third World debt.
He was born in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, the third of the four children of Andrés Rodríguez Palacios and Raquel Maradiaga. As a boy, he dreamed of playing the saxophone in a dance band or becoming a pilot. Instead, he received an internal call for the religious life and joined the Salesians on May 3, 1961.
He earned doctorates in philosophy from the Institute "Don Rua" in El Salvador, in theology from the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome and moral theology from the Pontifical Lateran University. From the Austrian University of Innsbruck Rodríguez received a diploma in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
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