Sucre names Archbishop Ricardo Centellas a favorite citizen

The Sucre Municipal Council held a posthumous honorary session on October 24 to name the late Archbishop Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán a favorite citizen of the city. The ceremony took place at the Consistorial Palace in the presence of Church and departmental authorities and the family of the deceased.

Council President Juan Pablo Cervantes Zambrana led the session. Council Secretary Mario Avendaño Nava Morales read Municipal Autonomous Resolution No. 348/26, issued on October 19, which recognizes the pastoral, academic, and institutional work of the late Archbishop for the municipality and the Chuquisaca department.

The resolution grants the honorary title and mandates the delivery of an official parchment to the family. Hugo Centellas Guzmán received the distinction on behalf of his family.

Archbishop Centellas, who served as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Sucre and Primate of Bolivia, died in Oruro on September 24 at the age of 63.