José Luis Escobar Alas (born 10 March 1959), Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, succeeded Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Sáenz Lacalle as the seventh archbishop, and a successor of Archbishop Óscar Romero who was assassinated in 1980.
José Luis Escobar Alas (born March 10,1959) is the eleventh Bishop and seventh Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. He succeeds Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Sáenz Lacalle in that position, and holds the post once held by Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980.