"The retired experience is characterised mainly by rest since one is after all in retirement. Without the concerns of the office, I initially found life in retirement disconcerting. For 35 years I was the head of the diocese and then the archdiocese."
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Archbishop Emeritus, Jaime (4 July 2012) Vatican Radio
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