Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet,
SDB (born 4 July 1959 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate and the archbishop of
Montevideo.
Biography
Sturla was born in a Uruguayan middle-class family. His parents died when he was a teenager. His eldest brother
Martín was an important politician at the end of the 20th century.
He attended
John XXIII Institute run by the
Salesians of Don Bosco
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, in
Montevideo. He entered the Salesian novitiate in 1979 and made his first religious profession on January 31, 1980. He studied theology at what was then called the Bishop Mariano Soler Theological Institute of Uruguay, and on November 21, 1987, he was ordained a priest.
After his ordination he served as vicar of the Salesian novitiate and postnovitiate, director of the Salesian aspirantate, master of novices, director of the
John XXIII Institute, and professor of Church history. He earned a licentiate in theology from the Soler Theological Institute in 2006.
On October 28, 2008, he was named Salesian provincial for Uruguay, and shortly after was elected president of the Conference of Religious of Uruguay.
On December 10, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named him titular bishop of Felbes and auxiliary bishop of Montevideo. On February 11, 2014, Pope Francis promoted him to archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay. On 9 March 2014 on the occasion of his inauguration a Mass was held together with Archbishop emeritus
Nicolás Cotugno
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Early life
He was the Archbishop of Montevideo from 4 December 1998 till 11 February ...
and
Apostolic Nuncio
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Anselmo Guido Pecorari
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; the Mass was attended by President
José Mujica
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (; born 20 May 1935) is a Uruguayan politician, former revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and im ...
, Vice President
Danilo Astori
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, former President
Luis Alberto Lacalle
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Background
His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, ...
, senator
Pedro Bordaberry
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and the mayor of Montevideo
Ana Olivera, among others.
Within the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay he has been put in charge of the Departments of the Missions and of the Laity.
Cardinal
Sturla was created a
cardinal by
Pope Francis
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on 14 February 2015. As
Cardinal-Priest
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he was assigned the
titular church
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of
Santa Galla.
In April 2015 Sturla Berhouet was appointed a member of the
,
Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
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, and Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
On 18 March 2020, Pope Francis named him a member of the Commission of Cardinals of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
Selected works
* ''1916–1917: Separación de la Iglesia y el Estado en el Uruguay'', Instituto Teológico del Uruguay Mariano Soler, Libro Annual, 1993
* ''¿Santa o de Turismo? Calendario y secularización en el Uruguay'', Instituto Superior Salesiano, colección Proyecto Educativo, 2010
See also
*Cardinals created by Pope Francis
References
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1959 births
Living people
People from Montevideo
Salesians of Don Bosco
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI
Members of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Uruguay
Uruguayan cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Francis
Salesian cardinals
Bishops appointed by Pope Francis
Uruguayan Roman Catholic archbishops
Roman Catholic archbishops of Montevideo