Jorge Cardinal Medina
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Jorge Arturo Agustín Cardinal Medina Estévez (born December 23, 1926 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Cardinal Protodeacon until February 23 2007, and is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
[edit] Life and Ministry
Medina was born in Santiago in 1926, and studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (where he received a baccalaureate in the arts and biology) and the Major Seminary of Santiago. He was ordained a priest on June 12, 1954 by Bishop Pio Fariña Fariña, the vicar general and an auxiliary bishop of Santiago. Earning a doctorate in theology in 1955, Medina taught philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary of Santiago and of the Pontifical Catholic University, respectively. He also served as a dean of the university, and as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council; for the latter he later received a honoris causa doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1996.
Pro-Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University from 1974 to 1985, he was named titular bishop of Thibilis and auxiliary bishop of Rancagua on December 18, 1984. Medina was consecrated to the episcopate on January 6, 1985 by Pope John Paul II himself, with Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Cardinal Lourdusamy acting as co-consecrators. He was made Bishop of Rancagua on November 25, 1987 and then Bishop of Valparaíso on April 16, 1993. He was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on June 21, 1996, resigning from his post in Valparaíso on the same day.
Medina was created a Cardinal Deacon in the consistory of February 21, 1998, with the title of San Saba. He was Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from February 23, 1998, until his retirement on October 1, 2002.
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Valparaíso (emeritus) |
Medina was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave, and, following the conclusion of the conclave, as Cardinal Protodeacon (the senior-most cardinal deacon), he had the task of announcing to the world the election of Pope Benedict XVI with the famous Habemus Papam formula.
Cardinal Medina lost his right to participate in any future conclaves after December 23, 2006, when he turned 80 years of age.
[edit] Trivia
- His Eminence is a Doctor Scientiae et honoris causa from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
- He is also a Chaplain ad honorem of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
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| Preceded by Antonio María Cardinal Javierre Ortas |
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments 1998–2002 |
Succeeded by Francis Cardinal Arinze |
