Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, who was 89 years old, died in Rome on Wednesday morning.
For more than a decade, the Mexican cardinal served as the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers at the Vatican, where he was a vocal opponent of abortion and euthanasia.
With Cardinal Barragán’s death on April 20, the College of Cardinals now has 210 members, with 117 of them eligible to vote in a possible conclave. Barragán was born in the Mexican city of Toluca, 30 miles southwest of Mexico City, on January 26, 1933.
According to Vatican News, he received his first communion at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where he would eventually be ordained a bishop and conduct his first Mass as a cardinal.
Between 1954 and 1958, Barragán received a licentiate and a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, after studying for the priesthood in the diocesan seminary of Zamora in the state of Michoacán.
Cardinal Barragán died at the age of 89 years old in Rome on April 20, 2022, after being hospitalized for an intestinal obstruction.
