Bishop Juan Alberto de la Merced Martín y Villaverde (2 May 1904 – 3 November 1960) was

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of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas The Diocese of Matanzas is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Cuba. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana. The diocese was e ...

(1938–1960). Bishop Martin was ordained a priest on October 27, 1927. He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Matanzas by

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on May 14, 1938, and was consecrated in the Cathedral of Matanzas on July 3, 1938, when he was 34 years old. His principal consecrator was Archbishop José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez of the

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and as co-consecrators, Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes of the

Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba, links=no) (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, responsible for the dioceses of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Sa ...

and Bishop Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau, C.P. of the

Diocese of Cienfuegos The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cienfuegos is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Camagüey. The original Diocese of Cienfuegos was erected in 1903 and renamed as the Diocese of Cienfuegos-Santa Clara in 1971. That diocese was split in 1995 t ...

. Bishop Martin died on November 3, 1960, at the age of 56.

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Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba bio

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