Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca

Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca (5 April 1954) is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile and as the bishop of the Diocese of Talca.

Quotes

• Theology and our own pastoral experience teach that the place of the saints is not "optative" in Christian life they reveal the concrete character of revelation; especially those closest to us in time and culture renew the revelation of God in history, giving flesh and blood to the Gospel.
  • 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean “The Saints are precious fruits of the evangelisation of our Latin American continent” (24 May 2007) Fides News Agency