Juan de Dios Hernández-Ruiz, S.J. (born November 14, 1948, in

Holguín Holguín () is a municipality and city in Cuba, and the capital of Province of Holguín. After Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey, it is the fourth largest city in Cuba. History Before Columbus, the Taino people settled in huts made fro ...

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) is a

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Roman Catholic bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Pinar del Río since his appointment by

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on June 5, 2019. He previously served as the

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Passo Corese Passo Corese is an Italian town and hamlet (''frazione'') of Fara in Sabina, a municipality in the province of Rieti, Lazio. In 2011 it had a population of 3,573. History Early history Close to Passo Corese is the site of Cures Sabinorum, also ca ...

and Auxiliary Bishop of the

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. He studied at the Seminary of Santiago de Cuba. He was then transferred to the Seminario Mayor Interdiocesano de San Cristóbal de La Habana, where he studied philosophy and theology. He continued his studies in Rome at the

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. In 1974 entered the

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. He was ordained a

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priest on December 26, 1976. From 1980 to 1986 he was assigned as a priest to in

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and

Cienfuegos Cienfuegos (), capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about from Havana and has a population of 150,000. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, especial ...

. He again went to Rome for more studies and returned to Cuba assigned to the Archdiocese of Havana. He was appointed Titular Bishop of Passo Corese and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Havana on December 3, 2005, and was consecrated a bishop on January 14, 2006, at the

Cathedral of Havana Havana Cathedral (''Catedral de San Cristóbal'') is one of eleven Catholic cathedrals on the island. It is located in the Plaza de la Catedral on Calle Empedrado, between San Ignacio y Mercaderes, Old Havana. The thirty by forty-nine meters rec ...

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (18 October 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the second Cuban to hold tha ...

, Cardinal Archbishop of Havana assisted by Mons. Emilio Aranguren-Echevarria, Bishop of Diocese of Holguín and Mons. Hector Luis Lucas Pena-Gomez

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of Holguín.

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Catholic Hierarchy bio

1948 births Living people People from Holguín 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Cuba Cuban Jesuits Jesuit bishops Roman Catholic bishops of Havana Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI 20th-century Cuban Roman Catholic priests {{Cuba-RC-bishop-stub