Juan Cardinal Sandoval Íñiguez
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His Eminence Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (born March 28, 1933 in Yahualica de González Gallo, Jalisco, Mexico) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Sandoval Íñiguez entered the seminary in 1945 and then went to Rome where he continued his studies. Sandoval Íñiguez was ordained as 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 he 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, Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo,and later that year he became a cardinal.
He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
