Celestino Aós Braco


Celestino Aós Braco

Cardinal
Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile
Aós in 2021
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseSantiago
SeeSantiago
Appointed27 December 2019
Installed11 January 2020
Term ended25 October 2023
PredecessorRicardo Ezzati Andrello
SuccessorFernando Chomalí Garib
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo (2020–)
President of the Chilean Episcopal Conference (2021-)
Previous post(s)
Orders
Ordination30 March 1968
by Ignacio Larrañaga Lasa
Consecration18 October 2014
by Ivo Scapolo
Created cardinal28 November 2020
by Pope Francis
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1945-04-06) 6 April 1945
Artaiz, Unciti, Navarra, Spain
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
University of Zaragoza
MottoAmar y servir
("To love and to serve")
Coat of arms

Celestino Aós Braco OFMCap (born 6 April 1945) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago in Chile from 2019 to 2023, after being apostolic administrator there for nine months. He was previously Bishop of Copiapó in Chile from 2014 to 2019. He was made a cardinal in 2020.

A member of the Franciscans (The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin), he has worked in Chile since 1983.