Enrique Alvear Urrutia

Enrique Alvear Urrutia (31 January 1916 – 29 April 1982) was a Chilean Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of San Felipe from 1965 until 1974 when he was made one of the two auxiliaries for the Santiago de Chile archdiocese.

He was a vocal critic during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and braved potential detention and death threats to condemn human rights abuses and other atrocities the regime undertook.

He spent his education first in his hometown and then in the Luis Campino Humanities Institute before he pursued a law degree from 1934 in the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile.

He received his episcopal consecration at the Basilica of Lourdes a month after the appointment from Raúl Silva Henríquez; the co-consecrators were Manuel Larraín Errazuriz and Eladio Vicuña Aránquiz.

In the evening on 11 September 1973 - against the advice of his aides - he went to prisons to inquire about people who were rounded up in a wave of arrests as part of Pinochet's coup against the sitting President Salvador Allende.