Raúl Silva Henríquez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raúl Silva Henríquez

Catholic cardinal

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1907

Place of Birth: Talca, Maule Region, Chile

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1999

Profession: lawyer, Catholic priest

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Raúl Silva Henríquez SDB (27 September 1907 – 9 April 1999) was a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church, a Cardinal from 1962.
He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1961 to 1983 and as Bishop of Valparaíso from 1959 to 1961.
Both as Archbishop and in retirement, he was an advocate for social justice and democracy and a forthright vocal critic of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet—"a constant thorn in the Government's side".