Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala

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List of assassinated and forcibly disappeared Roman Catholic priests working in Guatemala.

Name Nationality Parish Date killed Notes
, MM American Maryknoll mission Ixcán 20 November 1976 Included in death list of the Guatemalan military. Killed in plane crash under suspicious circumstances.[1]
Guatemalan Parish priest of San José Pinula 30 June 1978 Assassinated[2][3]
Filipino Parish priest of Tiquisate 1 May 1980 Abducted and disappeared[3][4]
, CICM Belgian Parish priest of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa 12 May 1980 Assassinated[3][4][5]
, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Chajul 4 June 1980 Assassinated[6][7][8][9]
, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Joyabaj 10 July 1980 Assassinated[7][8][9][10][11]
, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Uspantán 15 February 1981 Assassinated[6][7][8][9][11]
Guatemalan Parish priest of Tecpán 14 May 1981 Assassinated[3][12]
Tullio Marcello Maruzzo, OFM Italian Diocesan priest of Izabal 1 July 1981 Assassinated[13][14][15][16]
Stanley Francis Rother American Parish priest of Santiago Atitlán 28 July 1981 Assassinated[17][18][19][16][20][11]
, SJ Spanish Hospital chaplain 2 August 1981 Abducted and disappeared[6][8][9]
, OP Guatemalan Parish priest of Rabinal 21 January 1982 Assassinated[3][6]
James Alfred Miller, FSC American Teacher in Huehuetenango 13 February 1982 Assassinated[21]
, OFM Guatemalan Parish priest of Antigua Guatemala 7 November 1983 Abducted and assassinated.[3][6][22][23]

References[]

  1. ^ Edward T. and Donna Whitson Brett, The Bill Woods Story: Maryknoll Missionary in Guatemala. Maryknoll.
  2. ^ Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Caso ilustrativo No. 101. Ejecución arbitraria del Padre Eufemio Hermógenes López Coarchita". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  3. ^ a b c d e f ODHAG. "Testigos de la fe por la paz Vidas ejemplares de la Iglesia Católica de Guatemala" (PDF). Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala (ODHAG). Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  4. ^ a b Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Caso ilustrativo no. 56. Ejecución del sacerdote Walter Voordeckers". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  5. ^ Ginger Thompson (November 21, 2005). "Mildewed Police Files May Hold Clues to Atrocities in Guatemala". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  6. ^ a b c d e Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "La ruptura del tejido social". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  7. ^ a b c Harbour, Berna G. (29 March 2000). "Testimonios españoles de una tragedia". El País.
  8. ^ a b c d Pedraz, D. Santiago (22 November 2006). "Auto de extradicción, Juzgado Central de Instrucción Número uno de la Audiencia Nacional. Madrid" (PDF). Administración de Justicia, Madrid. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  9. ^ a b c d "QUERELLA DE RIGOBERTA MENCHU ANTE LA AUDIENCIA NACIONAL" (in Spanish). lasnoticiasmexico.com. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
  10. ^ Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Caso ilustrativo No. 79 - La masacre en la embajada de España". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  11. ^ a b c "Los sacerdotes, testigos de la fe, en Guatemala" (in Spanish). iglesiacatolica.org. 4 August 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  12. ^ "Priests Shot To Death". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Google News. May 21, 1981. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  13. ^ Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Las ejecuciones arbitrarias". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  14. ^ Frati Minori del Veneto e Friuli. "Padre Tullio Maruzzo, martire in Centro America". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
  15. ^ Ufficio Diocesano per la Pastorale Missionaria - Vicenza. "Padre Tullio Marcello Maruzzo dei frati minori" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-18.
  16. ^ a b "Report On The Situation of Human Rights In The Republic Of Guatemala". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 13 October 1981. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  17. ^ Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Caso ilustrativo no. 12. Persecución de Católicos en Santiago Atitlán". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.
  18. ^ "Guatemala: Requiem for a Missionary". Time. August 10, 1981. Archived from the original on October 15, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  19. ^ "Sainthood proposed for slain priest". Chicago Tribune. September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  20. ^ "AROUND THE WORLD; 3 Seized in Guatemala In Slaying of U.S. Priest". The New York Times. August 5, 1981. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  21. ^ "Br. Santiago Miller". De La Salle Brothers. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  22. ^ Ana J. Morales Ramírez. 2005. Semblanza del "Mártir de la Caridad" Fray Augusto Ramírez Monasterio. Guatemala: Provincia Franciscana “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Centroamérica y Panamá”.
  23. ^ Gygax, Eduard (20 November 2007). "Aceptan abrir proceso para beatificar a guatemalteco". El Periódico. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011.
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