Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez
Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez CSC (born June 3, 1907 in Chicago , † January 29, 1995 in Cincinnati ) was a Catholic bishop .
After Méndez-Gonzalez became a priest in Washington, DC on June 24, 1935, Pope John XXIII appointed him . on July 23, 1960 to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Arecibo in Puerto Rico . The episcopal ordination took place on October 28, 1960 in Notre Dame (Indiana) by Cardinal Francis Spellman . In 1974 he resigned as Bishop of Arecibo and returned to California.
In 1993 Mendez-Gonzalez consecrated the former priest of the Society of St. Pius X. Clarence James Kelly (* 1941) without permission in Carlsbad .
Web links
- Entry on Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez on catholic-hierarchy.org
- http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Mendez_Consecration.html (English)
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| SURNAME | Méndez-Gonzalez, Alfredo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Méndez-Gonzalez, Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Bishop of Arecibo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1995 |
| Place of death | Cincinnati |