Ignacio Ellacuría
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Ignacio Ellacuría SJ (November 9, 1930 – November 16, 1989) was a Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian who worked as a professor and rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA), a Jesuit university in El Salvador founded in 1965. He and several other Jesuits and two others were assassinated by Salvadoran soldiers in the closing years of the Salvadoran Civil War.
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Ignacio Ellacuría | |
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Born | November 9, 1930 |
Died | November 16, 1989(1989-11-16) (aged 59) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Notable ideas | "proseguir" |
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His work was defining for the shape UCA took in its first years of existence and the years to come. Ellacuría was also responsible for the development of formation programs for priests in the Jesuit Central American province.