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Jose Ignacio Cienfuegos
Fr. Jose Ignacio Cienfuegos Arteaga was a Chilean priest, Roman Catholic bishop of Concepcion and political figure. He served twice as President of the Senate of Chile.
Cienfuegos was born in Santiago, the son of Francisco Cienfuegos and of Josefa Arteaga Martinez. He studied Theology at the Universidad Real de San Felipe and was later ordained as a priest in 1778. Cienfuegos became a Dominican friar and in 1790 was named priest of Talca, where he worked for 23 years. As such, he actively participated in the independence movement in Chile.
In October 9, 1813, he became a member of ...
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