Quito, Ecuador, Nov 16, 2020 / 11:50 am
Cardinal Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, who served as Archbishop of Quito from 2003 to 2010, died Sunday after spending several weeks in palliative care.
Cardinal Vela, who was 86, died of natural causes at the Saint Camillus Hospice in Quito Nov. 15, the archdiocese told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish language news partner.
The cardinal had received palliative care at the hospice "for several weeks due to various health complications," the archdiocese said.
Fr. Alberto Redaelli, the director of the Saint Camillus Hospice, told the archdiocese that the cardinal died "accompanied by his closest family and friends" and "moments before his death they had been praying Vespers."