The Catholic Church announced the appointment of priest Ignacio Gramsch as the new Catholic chaplain of the La Moneda Palace, highlighting the curiosity that he is currently in charge of the Santa Ana parish and the El Sagrario Church (next to the Cathedral of Santiago); the chapel of the seat of government belonging «territorially and pastorally» to the latter.
The Episcopal Pastoral Vicariate recalled that Gramsch was «known – in the middle of the pandemic – for the solidarity bakery that he led in the San Alberto de Sicilia parish of Recoleta».
Tidy ordained priest in November 1992 by the then archbishop of Santiago Carlos Oviedo, until March 2024 he was the episcopal vicar in the North Zone of Santiago.
Ignacio Gramsch thus occupies the position that In May 2022, the priest of the Sacred Hearts Nicolás Viel González had taken overconsidered a friend of President Gabriel Boric and who suspended his duties in August 2023, when a complaint arose against him «for abuse of power and conscience.»
Then, in February 2024, the SS.CC. detailed that «a prior canonical investigation was carried out, according to institutional protocols instructed by an external specialist lawyer, which concluded the plausibility of the reported facts related to abuses of power, conscience, and crossing of bodily limits with sexual connotations«.