Octavio Ortiz Arrieta
Peruvian priest (1879–1958)
The Vatican record
- 27 February 2017 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2017)
Who they were
Octavio Ortiz Arrieta (19 April 1879 – 1 March 1958) was a Peruvian Salesian who served as Bishop of Chachapoyas from 1921 until his death. Arrieta first studied to become a carpenter at a Salesian-run school but soon decided to become a priest with the order to which he was professed in 1902. He served at several Salesian houses for over the next decade until Pope Benedict XV appointed him as a bishop in late 1921. He was a prolific shepherd of souls; he underwent eight pastoral visitations to all his parishes and travelled far and wide to meet with his people and to launch a range of pastoral initiatives designed to rekindle the faith of the population.
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The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q1652986 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Octavio Ortiz Arrieta (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.