José de la Cruz Turcios y Barahona
José de la Cruz Turcios y Barahona SDB (born September 1, 1884 in Pespire , Choluteca Department , Honduras, † July 18, 1968 in Tegucigalpa ) was a Honduran religious priest and Roman Catholic archbishop .
Life
The son of Francisco Turcios and Petrona Barahona went to the Colegio Salesiano de San Juan Bosco of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Santa Tecla in El Salvador . After the novitiate , the first vows and the philosophical-theological training, he was ordained a priest on January 1st, 1920 . First he worked for two years in San Salvador , then seven years in Panama , two years in Cartago in Costa Rica and finally ten years in the Costa Rican capital San José .
On May 28, 1943 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán in Honduras , connected with the titular diocese of Carrhae . The episcopal ordination took place on August 15, 1943 by Archbishop Federico Lunardi and the co-consecrators Bishop Juan Sastre y Riutort CM and Bishop Miguel Angel Machado y Escobar .
On December 8, 1947, he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa . He remained Archbishop until May 18, 1962, when he was made titular Archbishop of Nisibis in the course of his retirement .
In the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan he laid on August 7, 1949 as the foundation stone for the cathedral church of San Pedro Sula in the same place San Pedro Sula and finally in 1954 in the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa those for the Basilica of Suyapa .
He was the recipient of the Medalla de Oro al Mérito of the Republic of Panama .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Agustin Hombach |
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa 1959–1962 |
Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández SDB |
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| SURNAME | Turcios y Barahona, José de la Cruz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Honduran religious priest and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pespire , Choluteca Department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1968 |
| Place of death | Tegucigalpa |