Salvador Fernando Miguel Karadima Fariña (born August 30, 1930) is a renowned Catholic priest in Chile. He was an important religious influence for many of the high clergy.

Karadima case

In 2010 it was released to the public the existence of a number of complaints against him for the child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities , indecent exposure with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to...

 of his young male apprencies.
After an investigation by the Vatican of the Karadima case

Karadima case

In February 2011 after seven years of a catholic canonical investigation, the Vatican found the Reverend Fernando Karadima guilty of sexually abusing minors in Chile and sent him to a “life of prayer and penitence” and to “lifelong prohibition from the public exercise of any ministerial act,...

, Fernando Karadima was on January 16, 2011, convicted of "sexually abusing minors" and abuse of ecclesiastical power and ordered him to retire.