Agustín Román

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Agustín Alejo Román Rodríguez (born May 5, 1928 in San Antonio de los Baños , Cuba , † April 11, 2012 in Miami , Florida ) was auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Miami . He was considered a "lawyer" for the Cubans in exile in Florida.

Life

Agustín Alejo Román Rodríguez studied philosophy at the San Alberto Magno seminar in Matanzas and theology at the Seminary of Foreign Missionaries in Montreal. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Matanzas on July 5, 1959 . Due to the political situation in Cuba, he was expelled along with 132 other clergymen and shipped to Spain. Agustín Román traveled on to Chile; In 1966 he went to Miami. There he founded the sanctuary of the "Blessed Virgin of El Cobre", which became a religious center for Latin American Catholics. Román studied Religious Studies at Barry University and Human Resources at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens.

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Sertei and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Miami on February 6, 1979 . He was the first Cuban bishop in the United States. The Archbishop of Miami, Edward Anthony McCarthy , donated him episcopal ordination on March 24, 1979 ; Co- consecrators were René Henry Gracida , Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee , and John Joseph Fitzpatrick , Bishop of Brownsville .

On June 7, 2003, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Beloved Cuban bishop Agustín Román dies in Miami. In: San Diego Union Tribune , April 12, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ USA / Cuba: El Cobre shrine founder in Miami is dead , Vatican Radio from April 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Román, Agustín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Román Rodríguez, Agustín Alejo (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio de los Baños , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2012
Place of death Miami , Florida