Enrique San Pedro
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Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston | |
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| Motto | Libentissime impendam et super impendar (Most gladly I will spend myself and be spent for your sakes) |
Enrique San Pedro, S.J. (born Enrique San Pedro y Fonaguera) (March 9, 1926 - July 17, 1994) was a Cuban-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville in Texas from 1991 until his death in 1994. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston from 1986 to 1991.
Biography
Early life
Enrique San Pedro was born March 9, 1926, in Havana, Cuba,[1] the second child and oldest son of María Antonia Fornaguera and Enrique San Pedro y Xiques. His siblings were: Silvia, Berta and Javier San Pedro y Fornaguera.
San Pedro studied at
Priesthood
San Pedro was ordained a priest by Bishop William Brasseur for the Society of Jesus on March 18, 1957.[2] He continued his studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and received his doctorate in sacred scripture from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He spoke seven languages, wrote two books and some professional articles and book reviews.[3]
San Pedro then went to what was then South Vietnam and taught classes at Pius X Pontifical College in Da Lat. He also worked at the Student Center of St. Francisco Javier in Huế. In March 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, he was expelled from the country by the new Vietnamese government.
San Pedro came to the United States in the late 1970s.
Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston
On April 1, 1986, San Pedro was appointed by
Coadjutor Bishop and Bishop of Brownsville
San Pedro was appointed on August 13, 1991, by John Paul II as the
Death and legacy
Enrique San Pedro died in Miami on July 17, 1994, at age 68.[4]
In Brownsville, Texas, the diocese named its homeless shelter after him, the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center. The Bishop San Pedro Spanish Club, a service club in Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami is named after him. He is buried at Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery in Miami.
References
- ^ a b c Quaintance, Zack. "Diocese's fourth bishop spent life learning", Brownsville Herald, February 8, 2013
- ^ a b c Batts Jr., Battinto. "E. San Pedro, Cuban-born Texas Bishop", (obit) Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 18, 1994
- ^ "Balli, Cecelia. "Bishop Enrique San Pedro dies in Miami", The Brownsville Herald, July 18, 1994". Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ a b ""About the Diocese", Catholic Diocese of Brownsville". Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
External links
- Bishop Enrique San Pedro website
- Catholic Hierarchy bio
- Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba bio (in Spanish)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville
