Ernesto Cardenal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan priest and politician

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1925

Place of Birth: Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua

Profession: poet, politician, Catholic priest, translator, painter, theologian, sculptor

Nationality: Nicaragua

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ernesto Cardenal

  • Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born 20 January 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician.
  • He is a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977).
  • A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.
  • He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.

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