Oscar Romero was a Salvadorian Roman Catholic prelate who was killed by right-wing assassins.
Romero was born in Ciudad Barrios, and was ordained into the Roman Catholic Church in 1942. A conservative, he was elected bishop in 1970. Seven years later, in February 1977, to the dismay of more progressive members of the Catholic Church, he was made Archbishop of San Salvador. In spite of his conservative views, he had already made clear the importance he attached to social justice. The right wing believed that the Catholic Church in El Salvador, and the Jesuits in particular, were involved i…
