Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa
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His Eminence Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile | |
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| Province | Santiago |
| Diocese | Santiago |
| Appointed | 24 April 1998 |
| Installed | 17 May 1998 |
| Term ended | 15 December 2010 |
| Predecessor | Carlos Oviedo Cavada |
| Successor | Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, SDB |
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Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace Member of the Council of Cardinals |
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| Ordination | 16 July 1961 by Manuel Larraín Errazuriz |
| Consecration | 6 January 1991 by Pope John Paul II |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa |
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5 September 1933 Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Santiago de Chile (emeritus) |
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (born 5 September 1933) is a Chilean cardinal and the Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago. He is of Basque descent.
Born in Santiago, second of the six children of Pedro Errázuriz Larraín and Marta Ossa Ruíz.
He studied at the Liceo Alemán de los padres del Verbo Divino and later at the Faculty of Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1953. For 8 years, he was a member of the Student Center and of Federation of Students and joined different university groups of the nascent Schönstatt Movement. Errázuriz befriended the Servant of God Mario Hiriart and with him and other students originated this Marian apostolic movement in Chile.
Errázuriz Ossa attended the State University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he obtained a licentiate in philosophy and doctorate in theology. Besides his native Spanish, he speaks Italian, German and French.
He was ordained as a priest for the Schönstatt Fathers on 16 July 1961, in Fribourg, by Manuel Larraín Errázuriz, bishop of Talca. In October 1962, he met Fr. Josef Kentenich, founder of the secular Institute of Fathers of Schönstatt, whose spiritual paternity he considers a special gift from God. From 1963 to 1965, Errázuriz was consultor of youth communities and university students in several cities in Chile.
He served as Regional Superior in Chile of the Secular Institute of Fathers of Schönstatt, a position he held from 1965 to 1971. From Chile he directed the community of the institute in the Iberian peninsula and in Ecuador. As Regional Superior, participated in the Conference of clergy in Chile and was elected its vicepresident. During those years he worked with Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, who had welcomed the Institute, then in its organizational phase, in his archdiocese. In 1971 was called to serve his community's General Council in Germany.
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