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Próspero Penados del Barrio was a Guatemalan politician and diplomat who served as the President of Guatemala from 1966 to 1970. He was born in Flores, Guatemala, on 28 August 1925. He studied law at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City and was a professor of constitutional law at the same university. Penados del Barrio was a member of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) and was elected to the Guatemalan Congress in 1954. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1958 and served in that position until 1960. In 1966, he was elected President of Guatemala and served until 1970. During his presidency, he implemented a number of reforms, including the introduction of a new constitution, the establishment of a new electoral system, and the creation of a new social security system. Penados del Barrio was also a diplomat, serving as the Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 to 1975. He was also a member of the International Court of Justice from 1975 to 1980. After leaving office, he returned to teaching and wrote several books on constitutional law. He died on 28 August 2020 at the age of 95.

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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 28 August, 1925
Birthday 28 August
Birthplace Flores, Guatemala
Date of death (2005-05-13)
Died Place Guatemala City
Nationality Guatemala

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2000

Penados resigned from his archiepiscopal office in 2000, and was succeeded by Rodolfo Quezada Toruño as archbishop. He died aged 79 in Guatemala City, and was buried at the Cathedral of Guatemala City.

1983

On December 1, 1983, Penados was appointed as the XVII Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala City and prelate of Esquipulas by Pope John Paul II. During his years of service as the Guatemalan Archbishop, Penados changed the conservative approach of the Catholic Church towards the political scene of the nation, which at the time was suffering some of the most difficult years of the Civil War. He had a key role in the peace negotiations by denouncing many human rights abuses during past military regimes and by the Guatemalan Army, and by his support of human rights activism and victims of the Guatemalan Genocide. He was the founder of the Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala (ODHA / Office of Human Rights of the Archbishopric) in 1990.

1966

He returned to Guatemala to serve as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of San Marcos starting in 1966, and as its titular bishop from 1971 until 1983. In 1982, he was elected president of the Conferencia Episcopal de Guatemala, a charge he occupied until 1986.

1951

Born in Flores, Petén, Penados studied at the Seminario de Santiago in Guatemala and later at the Seminary of New Orleans, United States, to become a priest. He was ordained priest on March 24, 1951, in Rome and continued to study at the Roman Gregorianum, obtaining a degree in theology.

1925

Próspero Penados del Barrio (August 28, 1925 – May 13, 2005) was a Guatemalan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Guatemala City, Guatemala from 1983 to 2001, and was involved in the peace negotiations during the last years of the Guatemalan Civil War.

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