RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

1926 - 1993

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Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (11 November 1926 – 24 May 1993) was an archbishop of the Catholic Church in Mexico who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Posadas Ocampo was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II on the consistory of 28 June 1991. On 24 May 1993, Cardinal Posadas was murdered, struck by 14 bullets during a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport. Officially, Mexican-American sicarios were carrying out a contract killing for the Tijuana Cartel when Cardinal Posadas was allegedly mistaken for rival Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo is the 2,069th most popular religious figure (down from 1,968th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 147th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo ranks 2,069 out of 3,187. Before him are Aulus Licinius Archias, Frang Bardhi, Gregory VII of Constantinople, Bénézet, Ellen Church, and Salvatore De Giorgi. After him are Romanus of Caesarea, Józef Glemp, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Désiré Tsarahazana, Sára Salkaházi, and Justo Gallego Martínez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo ranks 202. Before him are Georges Lautner, Klaus Tennstedt, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Mahasweta Devi, and Choi Eun-hee. After him are Anne McCaffrey, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Moshe Sanbar, Bernard Agré, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Hans-Jochen Vogel. Among people deceased in 1993, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo ranks 116. Before him are John Tuzo Wilson, Richard Jordan, Guido Masetti, Stanley Myers, Henry Hazlitt, and Yuri Bezmenov. After him are Buddhadasa, Freya Stark, Deke Slayton, Pierre Victor Auger, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, and Jan Gies.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo ranks 144 out of 729. Before him are Francisco León de la Barra (1863), Juan Álvarez (1790), Kitten Natividad (1948), Huitzilihuitl (1379), Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967), and El Santo (1917). After him are Bernard Francis Law (1931), Ignacio Comonfort (1812), Francisco S. Carvajal (1870), Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950), José Vasconcelos (1882), and Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo ranks 8. Before him are Julia Pastrana (1834), Marcial Maciel (1920), José Sánchez del Río (1913), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Tlacaelel (1397), and Francisco Robles Ortega (1949). After him are Bernard Francis Law (1931), Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950), Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927), Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Alberto Suárez Inda (1939), and Miguel Pro (1891).

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