Eugenio Santiago Peyrou

Eugenio Santiago Peyrou SDB (born October 29, 1913 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † March 2, 2005 ) was an Argentine religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia .

Life

Eugenio Santiago Peyrou joined the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco as an aspirant in 1926, began his novitiate in 1929, made his first profession on January 28, 1930 and his perpetual profession in 1936. He then studied theology in Rome. There he was ordained a priest on December 17, 1939 . In 1932 he graduated as a school teacher. Back in Argentina he became a teacher and from 1955 school principal in Ushuaia .

On June 24, 1964 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia . The Archbishop of Salta , Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava SDB, donated him episcopal ordination on August 16 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Miguel Raspanti SDB, Bishop of Morón , and Victorio Manuel Bonamín SDB, Auxiliary Bishop in Buenos Aires .

As a council father, he took part in the third and fourth session of the Second Vatican Council .

On February 19, 1974, Pope Paul VI. his early resignation.

From 1977 he was active in pastoral care and obtained a licentiate in moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University . In 1987 he became Episcopal Vicar for Tierra del Fuego . In 1993 he founded a high school in Ushuaia and received honorary citizenship of that city. Until his death he worked as a school teacher and in the pastoral work of the diocese.

He died on March 2, 2005 at the age of 91.

Web links

• Entry on Eugenio Santiago Peyrou on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biography in Spanish ( Memento of August 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava SDB	Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia 1964–1974	Argimiro Daniel Moure Piñeiro SDS