Augusto Vargas Alzamora

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Augusto Cardinal Vargas Alzamora S.J. was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church.

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1940. He studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in San Miguel, Argentina and Madrid. He continued his studies in Granada, Spain and the University of San Marcos, Lima where he received his doctorate in education. Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Cissi and appointed him apostolic vicar of Jaén, Peru on 8 June 1978. In 1982 he was elected secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Peru, and was reelected twice more. He resigned the pastoral government of the vicariate in 1985. Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Lima in 1989 where he stayed until he retired in 1999. Pope John Paul elevated him to the cardinalate becoming created Cardinal Priest of "S. Roberto Bellarmino" in the consistory of November 26 1994. After he retired as Archbishop he continued ministering at a homeless shelter he founded in Lima until his death.

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