His Eminence Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragán (born 26 January 1933) is a Cardinal Deacon and President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers in the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Toluca, Mexico, Barragán trained as a priest in Zamora, Mexico, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where earned a doctorate in theology and was ordained in 1955.

In 1979, Barragán was appointed auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, then Bishop of Zacatecas in 1984. He came to the Vatican in 1996 as President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, and was elevated to Cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003.

Barragán was among the first to promote the canonization of John Paul II after his death in April 2005, claiming that the 1990 recovery of a boy with terminal lukemia, whom the pope blessed, is a miracle attributable to John Paul.

External links

• Biography at catholic-pages.com