Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi
Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, SJ (14 January 1928 – 19 March 2021) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic Bishop of Chimbote from 1967 till his retirement in 2004 and former president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. Early life He was born on January 14, 1928, in the Ancash city of Yungay, in a deeply Catholic home made up of his parents Alfredo and Luisa. Bambarén was the fifth of eight siblings, two of whom were also religious. He completed his primary studies in his hometown, and secondary at the Colegio de la Inmaculada in Lima. Bambarén began his religious life in the Jesuit novitiate on April 20, 1944, following studies of letters until he left for Spain in 1949 to study philosophy. Then he practiced teaching in Lima from 1952 to 1955, continuing his studies at the Faculty of Theology of Granada in Spain. Priesthood Bambarén was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in the city of Madrid on July 15, 1958, and his first mass coincided with the feast of the Virgen del Carmen, on July 16 of the same year. He completed his priestly training in Mexico and Colombia between 1959 and 1961. Upon his return to Peru