Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga

Who is Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga?

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga SDB is a Honduran Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the current Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, President of Caritas Internationalis and was President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference from 1995 to 1999. Rodríguez was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. He was the Vatican's spokesman with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, on the issue of Third World debt. He had been mentioned as a possible contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned in 2013.