Alfonso Navarro Oviedo was a Roman Catholic priest in
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
who was shot on May 11, 1977, on the outskirts of San Salvador. He served under Archbishop
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of English and Irish origin.
Etymology
The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ''car'', means "loving" or "friend", thus "deer-loving one" or "f ...
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External links
REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EL SALVADOR, CHAPTER II, RIGHT TO LIFE (1978)Major Charles O. Skipper, USMC (1984)
Year of birth missing
1977 deaths
20th-century Salvadoran Roman Catholic priests
20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Catholic martyrs of El Salvador
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