Octavio Cisneros

Reference style
Reference style	His Excellency; The Most Reverend;
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Octavio Cisneros (born July 19, 1945) is a Cuban-born American prelate of the

Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn

in New York City from 2006 to 2020.

Early life

The third of four children, Octavio Cisneros was born on July 19, 1945, in Las Villas, a province of Cuba, to Roberto Cisneros and Olga Lezcano. He and his family moved to Havana shortly after his birth. He studied in Cuba under the Piarist Fathers as a child. In October 1961, Octavio Cisneros immigrated to the United States as a political refugee as part of Operation Peter Pan. Relocated to Marquette, Michigan, he attended Negaunee St. Paul High School in Negaunee, Michigan.^[1]

Cisneros then studied at

Associate of Arts degree, and at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied theology at DeSales School of Theology in Washington, D.C., and at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, earning a Master of Divinity degree.^[1]

Priesthood

Cisneros was

ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Brooklyn by Bishop Francis Mugavero on May 29, 1971.^[2] For the first eight years of his priesthood, Cisneros served as parochial vicar at St. Michael's Parish in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. In 1979, Cisneros was named diocesan coordinator of the Hispanic Apostolate. Eight years later, he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in the Corona section of Queens.^[1]

Cisneros' subsequent appointments were as an

diocesan chancery.^[1]

Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn

On June 6, 2006, Cisneros was appointed as an

episcopal consecration on August 22, 2006, from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, with Bishops Thomas Daily and Ignatius Catanello serving as co-consecrators.^[2]

Cisneros served as vice-

Richmond Hill section of Queens.^[1]

Retirement

On July 19, 2020, Cisneros reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 for bishops and submitted his letter of resignation to Pope Francis. On October 30, 2020, Pope Francis accepted Cisneros' resignation. Cisneros continues to serve as pastor of Holy Child Jesus, as well as vicar of Hispanic concerns for the diocese.^[3]

On January 20, 2022, Cisneros traveled to Chalatenango, El Salvador to celebrate a mass at the gravesites of Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford. The two nuns from the Archdiocese of New York had been murdered in El Salvador on December 2, 1980, by soldiers of the El Salvador Army.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Bishop Octavio Cisneros, Auxiliary Bishop". Diocese of Brooklyn. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Bishop Octavio Cisneros [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
^ "Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn". Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ Service, Catholic News (21 January 2022). "Bishop visits tomb for U.S. women in El Salvador who may become martyrs". Catholic News Service. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

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Diocese of Brooklyn

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by –	Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn 2006–2020	Succeeded by –
Preceded by Michael Aidan Courtney	Titular Bishop of Eanach Dhúin 2006–2020	Succeeded by Sede Vacant

[:0-1] "Bishop Octavio Cisneros, Auxiliary Bishop". Diocese of Brooklyn. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

[:1-2] "Bishop Octavio Cisneros [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

[3] "Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn". Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[4] Service, Catholic News (21 January 2022). "Bishop visits tomb for U.S. women in El Salvador who may become martyrs". Catholic News Service. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

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