Former Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo, was born on December 1, 1927, in Plasencia, Spain, and was ordained to the priesthood at 25 years of age on March 19, 1953.
The first editor of the Spanish edition of "L'Osservatore Romano", he accompanied Pope Paul VI to the Second General Conference of the Latin-American Episcopal Conference (CELAM), which took place in Medellín, Colombia, in 1968.
Aged 61, Calderón Polo was named by Pope John Paul II, as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and elected Bishop of the Titular See of Thagora, receiving his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1989, from the named Pontiff assisted by Cardinals Edward Idris Cassidy and José Tomás Sánchez. During his tenure, he served under Cardinals Bernardin Gantin and Giovanni Battista Re.
The Bishop accompanied John Paul II in all his apostolic trips to Latin America, including to the IV General Conference of the CELAM, held in Santo Domingo in 1992.
Retiring from office at the canonical age of 75, on October 4, 2003, he was named as Hijo Predilecto de Plasencia in November 2006, and continued to serve within the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
A strong spokesman of the Holy See during the Second Vatican Council, the Bishop was also a member of the Pontifical Committee for Eucharistic Congresses.
Monsignor Cipriano Calderón Polo died in the morning of Wednesday, February 4, 2009, aged 81, whilst recovered at the Pio XI Clinic of Rome, due to cancer complications. Laid out in state at the chapel of the named Roman clinic, following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter's Basilica, presided by the named Cardinal Re, on Friday, February 6, his body was transported to his native Spain, where another solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at Plasencia, Cáceres, presided by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, assisted by 10 bishops and 100 presbyters, on Sunday, February 8. Interment followed inside the Church of El Salvador of Plasencia, where the bishop had been baptized and celebrated his first mass.
The first editor of the Spanish edition of "L'Osservatore Romano", he accompanied Pope Paul VI to the Second General Conference of the Latin-American Episcopal Conference (CELAM), which took place in Medellín, Colombia, in 1968.
Aged 61, Calderón Polo was named by Pope John Paul II, as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and elected Bishop of the Titular See of Thagora, receiving his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1989, from the named Pontiff assisted by Cardinals Edward Idris Cassidy and José Tomás Sánchez. During his tenure, he served under Cardinals Bernardin Gantin and Giovanni Battista Re.
The Bishop accompanied John Paul II in all his apostolic trips to Latin America, including to the IV General Conference of the CELAM, held in Santo Domingo in 1992.
Retiring from office at the canonical age of 75, on October 4, 2003, he was named as Hijo Predilecto de Plasencia in November 2006, and continued to serve within the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
A strong spokesman of the Holy See during the Second Vatican Council, the Bishop was also a member of the Pontifical Committee for Eucharistic Congresses.
Monsignor Cipriano Calderón Polo died in the morning of Wednesday, February 4, 2009, aged 81, whilst recovered at the Pio XI Clinic of Rome, due to cancer complications. Laid out in state at the chapel of the named Roman clinic, following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter's Basilica, presided by the named Cardinal Re, on Friday, February 6, his body was transported to his native Spain, where another solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at Plasencia, Cáceres, presided by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, assisted by 10 bishops and 100 presbyters, on Sunday, February 8. Interment followed inside the Church of El Salvador of Plasencia, where the bishop had been baptized and celebrated his first mass.
Former Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo, was born on December 1, 1927, in Plasencia, Spain, and was ordained to the priesthood at 25 years of age on March 19, 1953.
The first editor of the Spanish edition of "L'Osservatore Romano", he accompanied Pope Paul VI to the Second General Conference of the Latin-American Episcopal Conference (CELAM), which took place in Medellín, Colombia, in 1968.
Aged 61, Calderón Polo was named by Pope John Paul II, as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and elected Bishop of the Titular See of Thagora, receiving his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1989, from the named Pontiff assisted by Cardinals Edward Idris Cassidy and José Tomás Sánchez. During his tenure, he served under Cardinals Bernardin Gantin and Giovanni Battista Re.
The Bishop accompanied John Paul II in all his apostolic trips to Latin America, including to the IV General Conference of the CELAM, held in Santo Domingo in 1992.
Retiring from office at the canonical age of 75, on October 4, 2003, he was named as Hijo Predilecto de Plasencia in November 2006, and continued to serve within the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
A strong spokesman of the Holy See during the Second Vatican Council, the Bishop was also a member of the Pontifical Committee for Eucharistic Congresses.
Monsignor Cipriano Calderón Polo died in the morning of Wednesday, February 4, 2009, aged 81, whilst recovered at the Pio XI Clinic of Rome, due to cancer complications. Laid out in state at the chapel of the named Roman clinic, following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter's Basilica, presided by the named Cardinal Re, on Friday, February 6, his body was transported to his native Spain, where another solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at Plasencia, Cáceres, presided by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, assisted by 10 bishops and 100 presbyters, on Sunday, February 8. Interment followed inside the Church of El Salvador of Plasencia, where the bishop had been baptized and celebrated his first mass.
The first editor of the Spanish edition of "L'Osservatore Romano", he accompanied Pope Paul VI to the Second General Conference of the Latin-American Episcopal Conference (CELAM), which took place in Medellín, Colombia, in 1968.
Aged 61, Calderón Polo was named by Pope John Paul II, as Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and elected Bishop of the Titular See of Thagora, receiving his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1989, from the named Pontiff assisted by Cardinals Edward Idris Cassidy and José Tomás Sánchez. During his tenure, he served under Cardinals Bernardin Gantin and Giovanni Battista Re.
The Bishop accompanied John Paul II in all his apostolic trips to Latin America, including to the IV General Conference of the CELAM, held in Santo Domingo in 1992.
Retiring from office at the canonical age of 75, on October 4, 2003, he was named as Hijo Predilecto de Plasencia in November 2006, and continued to serve within the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
A strong spokesman of the Holy See during the Second Vatican Council, the Bishop was also a member of the Pontifical Committee for Eucharistic Congresses.
Monsignor Cipriano Calderón Polo died in the morning of Wednesday, February 4, 2009, aged 81, whilst recovered at the Pio XI Clinic of Rome, due to cancer complications. Laid out in state at the chapel of the named Roman clinic, following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter's Basilica, presided by the named Cardinal Re, on Friday, February 6, his body was transported to his native Spain, where another solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at Plasencia, Cáceres, presided by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, assisted by 10 bishops and 100 presbyters, on Sunday, February 8. Interment followed inside the Church of El Salvador of Plasencia, where the bishop had been baptized and celebrated his first mass.
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