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Rodolfo Quezada Toruño

His Eminence
Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño
Cardinal Archbishop of Guatemala City
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See Guatemala City
Installed 15 July 2003
Predecessor Próspero Penados del Barrio
Successor Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B.
Other posts Auxiliary Bishop of Zacapa (1972–1975)
Coadjutor Bishop of Zacapa (1975–1980)
Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (1980–2001)
Orders
Ordination 21 September 1956
Consecration 13 May 1972
Created Cardinal 21 October 2003 by John Paul II
Rank Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born (1932-03-08)8 March 1932
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died 4 June 2012(2012-06-04) (aged 80)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Styles of
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Guatemala City (emeritus)

Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño (8 March 1932 – 4 June 2012) was a Guatemalan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Guatemala City, having previously served as Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas from 1980 to 2001. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.

The oldest of three children, Quezada was born in Guatemala City to René Quezada Alejos and Clemencia Toruño Lizarralde. After studying philosophy at the Seminary of San José in El Salvador, he earned a Licentiate in Theology from the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1959 and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1962. Quezada was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano on 21 September 1956. He served as parochial vicar of El Sagrario, rector of Beatas di Belén, university chaplain as well as vice-chancellor of the Archdiocese of Guatemala City. He was the first rector of the National Major Seminary of the Assumption in Guatemala, and named Chaplain of His Holiness on 18 August 1968. He also taught canon law at the Salesian Theological Institute and Rafael Landívar University, and ethics at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala.


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