Juan Barros Madrid

Quick Facts

Full Name	Juan Barros Madrid
Occupation	Catholic Priest
Date Of Birth	Jul 15, 1956(1956-07-15)
Age	68
Birthplace	Santiago
Country	Chile
Birth City	Santiago Metropolitan Region
Horoscope	Cancer

Juan Barros Madrid Biography

Juan Barros Madrid is one of the most popular and richest Catholic Priest who was born on July 15, 1956 in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile.

Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid (born 15 July 1956) is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Osorno from 2015 to 2018. He was Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso from 1995 to 2000, Bishop of Iquique from 2000 to 2004, and Military Ordinary of Chile from 2004 to 2015.

Beginning in 1983 he served a private secretary to the Archbishop of Santiago Juan Francisco Fresno and was later accused while in that position of protecting Karadima from charges of sexual abuse. In 1984 a group of parishioners reported “improper conduct” on the part of Karadima to Juan Francisco Fresno, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile. One of them later told a court that he learned that their letter was “torn up and thrown away”.

Juan Barros Madrid Net Worth

Juan Barros Madrid is one of the richest Catholic Priest from Chile. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Juan Barros Madrid 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Juan Barros was born on 15 July 1956 in Santiago de Chile. He studied at College St. Ignatius El Bosque, and joined the Union of the Sacred Heart led by Karadima. After studying economics and administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, he entered the major seminary of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile where he studied philosophy and theology.

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Pope Francis named him Bishop of Osorno on 10 January 2015. Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, tried to have Francis withdraw the appointment. Barros was criticized for his connection to Fr. Fernando Karadima, who had been accused by multiple people of sexual misconduct. Some alleged victims claimed that Barros was present during Karadima’s sexual acts, with one even saying that he participated in them. After several Chilean bishops questioned the appointment, Francis wrote privately to the leadership of the Episcopal Conference of Chile explaining that he understood the appointment would be controversial but that a plan to allow the bishops with ties to Karadima to take a sabbatical year to ease their reassignment had fallen through. Local protests and candlelight vigils and a petition to the papal nuncio on the part of 30 of the 41 priests of the diocese and deacons of the diocese were unsuccessful in blocking Barros’ appointment, as was a letter signed by 51 members of the National Congress. The Vatican issued a rare statement defending Barro’s appointment on 31 March, just a single sentence. Protestors stormed the cathedral to disrupt Barros’ installation there in March. Most of Chile’s bishops did not attend the installation ceremony as is customary. According to Francis, Barros later offered to resign on two occasions. Parishioners continued to protest Barros’ appointment by withholding donations or leaving a church where he appeared. Other lay groups found themselves energized to fight what one called their “revictimization” and to campaign for their voices to be heard in the selection of their bishop.

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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Catholic Priest. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Chile. Juan Barros Madrid celebrates birthday on July 15 of every year.

On 22 January 2018 Pope Francis spoke at length about the charges against Barros. He said that “The Barros case was examined and reexamined, but there is no evidence. That is what I wanted to say. I don’t have the evidence needed to convict.” Several members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors later reported that they had presented O’Malley with an 8-page letter from Juan Carlos Cruz, one of Barros’ accusers, and that O’Malley later assured them he had given it to Francis. This contradicted Francis’s earlier claims that he had not heard statements from any victims. “You, in all good will, tell me that there are victims, but I haven’t seen any, because they haven’t come forward,” he had previously said.