Raúl Silva Henríquez

Styles of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Santiago de Chile (emeritus)

Raúl Silva Henríquez, SDB (27 September 1907 – 9 April 1999) was a Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Santiago from 1961 to 1983, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962.

Born in Talca, Silva Henríquez was the sixteenth of nineteen children. His father, Ricardo Silva Silva, was a farmer and industrialist of Portuguese descent, and his mother was Mercedes Henríquez Encina. After studying at the Catholic University of Chile (from where he obtained his doctorate in law), Silva joined the Salesians of Don Bosco on 28 January 1930. He later attended the Salesian Pontifical University in Turin, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 3 July 1938. From the Salesian University he earned a doctorate in theology and in canon law.

On 24 October 1959, Silva Henríquez was appointed bishop of Valparaíso by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 29 November from Archbishop Opilio Rossi, with Archbishop Emilio Tagle Covarrubias and Bishop Vladimiro Boric Crnosija, SDB, serving as co-consecrators. He was later named Archbishop of Santiago and thus de facto Primate of the Church in Chile on 14 May 1961.

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