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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Próspero Penados
del Barrio (August 28, 1925 - May 13, 2005) was a Guatemalan prelate of
the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Guatemala City,
Guatemala from 1983 to 2001, and was involved in the peace negotiations
during the last years of the Guatemalan Civil War. Born in Flores,
Petén, Penados studied at the Seminario de Santiago in Guatemala and
later at the Seminar of New Orleans, USA, to become a priest. He was
ordered on March 24, 1951 in Rome and continued to study at the Roman
Gregorianum, obtaining a degree in theology. He returned to Guatemala to
serve as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of San Marcos starting in 1966,
and as its titular bishop from 1971 until 1983. In 1982, he was elected
president of the Conferencia Episcopal de Guatemala, a charge he
occupied until 1986.
