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2. Archbishop Oscar Romero Credit: Australian Picture Library

3. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1917 Born in Ciudad Barrios El Salvador (15th August ) • Parents were Santos Romero & Guadalupe de Jesus Galdamez • Second eldest of seven children • 1919 Baptised (11th May) • 1922-1924 attended public school • 1925-1928 private tutoring

4. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1929 began apprenticeship in carpentry • 1930 entered the minor seminary in San Miguel • 1937 Theological Studies at National Seminary in San Salvador • 1937 Theological Studies at Gregorian University Rome

5. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1941 Licentiate Degree in Theology • 1941 Began Studies in a doctoral degree in ascetical theology • 1942 Ordained to the Priesthood (4th April) • 1943 Recalled to El Salvador prior to completing the doctoral degree

6. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1944 Began his ministry in El Salvador • 1967 Secretary General to the National Bishops’ Conference • 1967 given the title Monsignor • 1970 Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador

7. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1971 became editor of the archdiocesan newspaper Orientacion • 1974 installation as bishop Santiago de Maria (14th December) • 1975 Consultor of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America • 1977 installed as Archbishop of San Salvador (22nd February)

8. Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1977 Jesuit priest Rutilio Grande friend of Romero was murdered (12th March) • 1977ff Romero spoke out against the murders in public masses and in radio broadcasts • 1977ff became more the voice against the government

9. Credit: Euipo Maiz Oscar Arnulfo Romero • 1977ff became more the church’s spokesman for liberation theology • 1979 went to Rome to visit Pope and presented 7 dossiers of injustices in El Salvador • 1980 assassinated (24th March) “I have frequently been threatened with death. I must say that, as a Christian, I do not believe in death but in the resurrection. If they kill me, I shall rise again in the Salvadoran people.” Oscar Romero