José Hipólito Salas

José Hipólito Salas.

José Hipólito Salas y Toro (August 13, 1812 - July 20, 1883) was a Chilean Catholic priest and theologian.[1] It served as bishop of Concepción between 1854 and 1883.

Biography

He was born in Olivar, and studied in the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera in Santiago.[2] Salas was ordained a priest on 22 November 1835. He was professor of the extinct Faculty of Theology of the University of Chile.

Salas was candidate for deputy representing Rancagua and Maipo in the parliamentary elections of Chile of 1843, in which finally were elected José Santiago Melo Mendoza and Luis García Huidobro Aldunate.[3]

In October 1845 he was appointed bishop of the then Diocese of Conception, and in next year he ordered the reopening of the Seminar of Concepción.[2] He also managed the construction of the Cathedral of Conception in 1867, that replaced the old temple destroyed by the 1835 Concepción earthquake.[4]

In 1848 he wrote the essay Memoria sobre el servicio personal de los indígenas y su abolición about encomienda and other subjects.[5] His book caused some controversy with José Victorino Lastarria.

He participated of the First Vatican Council (1869–70) convoked by Pope Pius IX, as part of the Chilean group led by monsignor Rafael Valentín Valdivieso.[2] In Vatican he was invitated to join the College of Cardinals, however he refused the offer and returned to Chile.[4]

He died in 1883, and his rests remain in the General Cemetery of Concepción.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "La teología chilena del siglo XIX". Teología en América Latina (in Spanish) 2. p. 704. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bishop José Hipólito Salas y Toro". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Sesión de la Cámara de Diputados, en 16 de junio de 1843". Sesiones de los Cuerpos Lejislativos de la República de Chile (in Spanish). 16 June 1843. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Rostros del Bicentenario: Los 20 guerreros del Biobío". Revista Nos (in Spanish). September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Memoria sobre el servicio personal de los indígenas y su abolicion, leida en la sesion pública de la Universidad de Chile por el presbítero D. J. Hipólito Salas". memoriachilena.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Personajes". cementerioconcepcion.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2015.
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