Abstract

The article studies all the interventions of the bishops in Latin America and the Caribbean when drafting the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, during the Second Vatican Council in 1964. The objective of this study is to bring the contribution that the churches of Latin America made to this document to light. Through this analysis, we draw some conclusions about the shape of the Latin American episcopate and the elements that outlined what would become the ecclesiology of Medellín and its later effects. Knowing his contribution to the conciliar ecclesiology does justice to his work, which is sometimes unexplored and underappreciated, and better explains the subsequent development of the Catholic Church in Latin America.