Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández

Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández (born October 4, 1928 in Camagüey , † December 4, 1990 in El Paso , Texas , USA ) was a Cuban clergyman and Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana .

Life

He began his training as a priest in the Seminario de San Basilio Magno in El Cobre . He was later sent by the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba , Enrique Pérez Serantes , to Spain to study at the Pontifical University of Comillas , where he obtained a degree in philosophy and theology.

The ordination received Francisco Oves Ricardo Fernández on April 13, 1952 in the Cathedral of Camagüey by the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Enrique Pérez Serantes. Then he was pastor in Santa Cruz del Sur until 1961 and also editor of television programs. After the victory of the revolution in 1959, he supported efforts to build a Christian Democratic movement (Movimiento Demócrata Cristiano) underground. In April 1961 he became pastor of the Santa Ana Parish in Camagüey.

After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion , Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández was expelled from Camagüey together with numerous other clerics and fled to Havana to meet Eduardo Boza Masvidal , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana. In September 1961 he was banished to Spain along with Bishop Boza and more than 150 priests. He went to Rome and met with Pope John XXIII. In Rome, with the support of Calogero Gliozzo SJ , former Provincial, director of the Civiltà Cattolica magazine and the Institute of Pastoral Sociology , he studied at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where he obtained a doctorate in social sciences . In 1965 he returned, against the advice of the Bishop of Camagüey Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera , in the wake of the Vatican Chargé d'affaires in Cuba, Cesare Zacchi . He became a professor at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio in Havana and exercised a priestly service in the Diocese of Camagüey.

On April 25, 1969, Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández was appointed by Pope Paul VI. Appointed Titular Bishop of Montecorvino and Auxiliary Bishop in Cienfuegos . He was ordained bishop on July 16 of the same year by Bishop Cesare Zacchi, Chargé d'affaires of the Holy See in Cuba; Co- consecrators were Alfredo Antonio Francisco Müller y San Martín , Bishop of Cienfuegos, and Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera , Bishop of Camagüey. On January 26, 1970, he was raised as the successor to Evelio Díaz Cía Archbishop of Havana. He was brought to Rome in early 1980 because of a nervous disease. On February 20, 1980, the Pope appointed Pedro Meurice Estiu as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of the Archbishop of Havana. On March 28, 1981, Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández renounced the leadership of the Archdiocese, his successor was Jaime Ortega , previously Bishop of Pinar del Río . Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández lived in El Paso, Texas, from 1982, where he was vicar general for the Spanish-speaking congregations and pastor at the Church of Santo Niño de Atocha .

He died of a heart attack in El Paso in 1990 and was initially buried in the Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery in Miami , Florida. In June 2012, his remains were transferred to Cuba and the Cathedral buried in Havana.

Web links

• Salvador Miranda : Oves Fernández, Francisco Ricardo. In: Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba. fiu.edu , Florida International University website (Spanish). 
• Entry on Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 20, 2017 ..

predecessor	Office	successor
Evelio Díaz Cía	Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana 1970–1981	Jaime Cardinal Ortega