José Hipólito Salas
{{Short description|Catholic priest from Chile}}
José Hipólito Salas y Toro (August 13, 1812 – July 20, 1883) was a Chilean Catholic priest and theologian.{{Cite book|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=IcLd9DU_LiUC&pg=PA704|title =La teología chilena del siglo XIX|work =Teología en América Latina|volume=2|page=704|isbn =9788484893332|language=Spanish|access-date = 28 September 2015|last1 =Saranyana|first1 =José Ignacio|last2 =Alejos-Grau|first2 =Carmen José|year =2008|publisher =Iberoamericana Editorial}} He served as bishop of Concepción between 1854 and 1883.
Biography
He was born in Olivar, and studied in the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera in Santiago.{{Cite web|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsato.html|title = Bishop José Hipólito Salas y Toro|work = catholic-hierarchy.org|access-date = 28 September 2015}} Salas was ordained a priest on 22 November 1835. He was professor of the now-extinct Faculty of Theology of the University of Chile.
Salas was candidate for deputy representing Rancagua and Maipo in the parliamentary elections of Chile of 1843, in which finally were elected José Santiago Melo Mendoza and Luis García Huidobro Aldunate.{{Cite web|url = http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Sesiones_de_los_Cuerpos_Lejislativos_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_de_Chile/1843/Sesi%C3%B3n_de_la_C%C3%A1mara_de_Diputados,_en_16_de_junio_de_1843|title = Sesión de la Cámara de Diputados, en 16 de junio de 1843|work = Sesiones de los Cuerpos Lejislativos de la República de Chile|language=Spanish|date = 16 June 1843|access-date = 28 September 2015}}
In 1848 he wrote the essay Memoria sobre el servicio personal de los indígenas y su abolición about encomienda and other subjects.{{Cite web|url = http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/documento_detalle.asp?id=MC0050033|title = Memoria sobre el servicio personal de los indígenas y su abolicion, leida en la sesion pública de la Universidad de Chile por el presbítero D. J. Hipólito Salas|work = memoriachilena.cl|language=Spanish|access-date = 28 September 2015}}
In October 1854 he was appointed bishop of the then Diocese of Conception, and in next year he ordered the reopening of the Seminar of Concepción. He also managed the construction of the Cathedral of Conception in 1867, that replaced the old church destroyed by the 1835 Concepción earthquake.{{Cite web|url = http://www.revistanos.cl/2010/09/rostros-del-bicentenario-los-20-guerreros-del-biobio/|title = Rostros del Bicentenario: Los 20 guerreros del Biobío|work = Revista Nos|language = Spanish|date = September 2010|access-date = 28 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151001235019/http://www.revistanos.cl/2010/09/rostros-del-bicentenario-los-20-guerreros-del-biobio/|archive-date = 1 October 2015|url-status = dead}}
He participated of the First Vatican Council (1869–70) convoked by Pope Pius IX, as part of the Chilean group led by monsignor Rafael Valentín Valdivieso. In Vatican he was invited to join the College of Cardinals, however he refused the offer and returned to Chile.
He died in 1883, and his remains lie in the General Cemetery of Concepción.{{Cite web|url = http://www.cementerioconcepcion.cl/personajes.php|title = Personajes|work = cementerioconcepcion.cl|language = Spanish|access-date = 28 September 2015|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150929073652/http://www.cementerioconcepcion.cl/personajes.php|archivedate = 29 September 2015}}
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Chile
Category:19th-century Roman Catholic theologians
Category:People from Cachapoal Province