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Francisco Ricardo Oves-Fernandez (October 4, 1928 in
Camagüey Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by Sp ...
, Cuba – December 4, 1990 in
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, Texas, US) was the
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of the Archdiocese of Havana. He studied in the Seminary of San Basilio Magno, El Cobre, Oriente, Cuba. He was later sent by the Archbishop of
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, Mons.
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, to study at the Pontificia Universidad de Comillas in Spain. He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1952, by Mons.
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, archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, in the Cathedral of Camagüey. In the diocese of Camagüey he was assigned to the parish of Santa Cruz del Sur from 1952 to 1961 and director of TV programing. After the
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of 1959, he was one of the first priests to realize the Marxist-Leninist orientation of the revolution. In April 1961, after the failed
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, he was expelled from Camagüey along with other members of the clergy. He took refuge in Havana along with Mons. Eduardo Boza-Masvidal, Auxiliary Bishop of Havana. In September 1961, he was exiled to Spain on the ship Covadonga along with Mons. Boza and more than another 150 priests. He went to Rome with Mons. Boza and Father Agnelio Blanco and had an interview with
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. While in Rome he received a Doctorate in Social Sciences from Pontificia Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino. In 1965, the head of mission of the Vatican in Cuba Mons.
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, was able to get Father Oves returned to Cuba. The Bishop of Camagüey, Mons.
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opposed his return to Cuba. He was a professor at the
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in Havana. He was elevated as Titular Bishop of Montecorvino and named
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of Cienfuegos by
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on April 25, 1969. He was consecrated in the
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on July 16, 1969, by Mons.
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, Titular Bishop of Zella, and assisted by Mons.
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, Bishop of Cienfuegos and Mons.
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, Bishop of Camagüey. He was promoted as Archbishop of Havana on January 26, 1970, succeeding Mons.
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. He later became sick from nerves and was taken to Rome in the beginning of 1980. The Pope designated an apostolic administrator, sede plena, for the Archdiocese of Havana Mons.
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, on February 20, 1980. He resigned his position on March 28, 1981. He was succeeded by Mons.
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 Archdiocese of Havana, Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the se ...
, the Bishop of the
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. In 1982, he went to live in El Paso, Texas, USA and was assigned to the parish of Santo Niño de Atocha. He died on December 4, 1990, in El Paso, Texas, of a heart attack. His body was transferred to Miami, Florida and his body was displayed at the Shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre on Sunday, December 8, 1990. The funeral took place at the Cathedral of Saint Mary the following day. The mass was celebrated by Mons.
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 Archdiocese of Havana, Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the se ...
, Archbishop of Havana, the successor of Mons. Oves, who traveled from Cuba to assist in the Mass, Mons.
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,
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of the
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, Mons.
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, S.J., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Mons. Roberto Octavio González, O.F.M., Auxiliary Bishop of the
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, and 44 other priests, mainly Cuban exiles. He was buried at
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, in the area reserved for bishops and priests. A second funeral mass was celebrated in the
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on December 13 presided by Archbishop Ortega.


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