Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas, center, leads a procession on Palm Sunday in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 4, 1982. Rivera y Damas was named Archbishop in February of 1983 after the post was left unfilled following the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero. RIvera y Damas was similarly outspoken in denouncing injustice and crimes committed by the state and he led the Church as a monitor in the country’s 1992 UN-backed peace process.