Edmundo Valenzuela

Edmundo Valenzuela in 2017

Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid (19 November 1944–) is a Paraguayan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción.

Quotes

• I am sure that both realities, prayer and medical professionalism, achieve a wonderful result. The confluence of both actions, prayer and medical care, indicates the need to consider the human person in all his dimensions: physical, psychic and spiritual. This unity needs to be healed. And this is what I live in this place of silence, meditation and rest.
  • Paraguay – The experience of Msgr. Valenzuela, SDB, with Covid-19: "a magnificent opportunity to accept God's will" (16 October 2020)