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Argentina's Bishop Oscar Vicente Ojea, a Disciple of Francis

By Marie Malzac
La Croix International
January 29, 2019

https://international.la-croix.com/news/argentinas-bishop-oscar-vicente-ojea-a-disciple-of-francis/9335

Bishop Oscar Vicente Ojea, June 7, 2018. (Photo by Eitan Abramovich/AFP)



President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference since 2017 and bishop of San Isidro since 2011, Bishop Oscar Vicente Ojea has remained close to Jorge Mario Bergoglio throughout a crisis in the local church. This is the first of a seven-part series profiling heads of bishops' conferences. Aged 72, Bishop Oscar Vicente Ojea has known Pope Francis for many years. Indeed, in 2006 he was appointed as auxiliary bishop to Jorge Bergoglio, the then archbishop of Buenos Aires.The two men have long shared similar concerns, particularly for the poor. In this sense, Bishop Ojea of San Isidro, not far from the Argentine capital, is a leading disciple...

 

 

 

 

 




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