Pedro Meurice

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Pedro Claro Meurice Estiú (born February 23, 1932 in San Luis , Cuba ; † July 21, 2011 in Miami , USA ) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba .

Life

Meurice studied philosophy and theology at the seminaries in Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre and Havana as well as at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic. After his ordination on June 26, 1955, he studied spirituality with Joaquín Goicoecheaundía at the seminary in Vitoria in Spain. From 1955 to 1958 he completed a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After various training courses in France and Belgium, he returned to Santiago de Cuba and became Vice-Chancellor and Secretary of Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes . In 1963 he was appointed chancellor and in 1966 pastor of Vista Alegre in Santiago de Cuba.

Pope Paul VI appointed him in 1967 titular bishop of Teglata in Numidia and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba . The episcopal ordination in the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba received his Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes ; Co- consecrators were Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera , Bishop of Camagüey , and Alfredo Ignacio Llaguno Canals , Auxiliary Bishop in San Cristóbal de la Habana .

After the death of Archbishop Pérez Serantes on April 18, 1968, he was appointed vicar general and on June 25 of the same year by Pope Paul VI. appointed Apostolic Administrator of Santiago de Cuba.

On July 4, 1970, he was appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, where Cuba's most popular Marian shrine, Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, is also located. He was also the administrator of the Archdiocese of Havana in 1980/81. In 1998 he hosted a visit from Pope John Paul II.

On February 10, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related resignation, his successor was Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez . Pedro Meurice suffered from diabetes and died of kidney failure in a clinic in Miami, USA.

Act

Archbishop Pedro Meurice Estiú was considered a pillar of the Cuban Catholic Church and was a sharp critic of the regime of Fidel Castro .

“During Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Cuba, he publicly attacked the then Prime Minister Fidel Castro at the beginning of a service on January 24, 1998 with harsh words. In the presence of Fidel Castro's brother and later successor Raúl Castro , Meurice declared that the Cubans had to “demystify the false messiahs” and deplored the division of the people through exile. After the death of John Paul II in 2005, Fidel Castro took part in a funeral mass led by Meurice in Havana; he declared that he would not bring the incident to the archbishop. "

The archbishop's public criticism was particularly important because not only did the international media public take part in the papal visit, but the service was also broadcast live on Cuban television. For the first time in the country since Fidel Castro took all of the country's media under his unrestricted control, shortly after the revolution, the Cubans saw a Cuban criticizing the president in front of the entire nation. Meurice's successor García Ibáñez had the same opportunity in March 2012, when he also gave the words of welcome for Pope Benedict XVI. at the beginning of his service in Santiago de Cuba said: When García Ibáñez remembered Meurice's historical words during his address, spontaneous applause broke out among the more than 200,000 present.

literature

  • Humberto Esteve Abril, Eduardo Mesa: Homenaje a Pedro Claro Meurice Estiú. Silueta, Miami 2012, ISBN 978-098333866-6 (Spanish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Castro critic Meurice died
  2. ↑ a b Wilfredo Cancio Isla: Fallce en Miami Monseñor Pedro Meurice, pilar de la Iglesia Católica cubana.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cafe Fuerte, July 21, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cafefuerte.com  
  3. ^ Cuban archbishop and Castro critic Meurice died. Adveniat / kna, July 22, 2011
  4. ↑ Cuba Catholic Bishops' Conference: Saludo de Mons. Dionisio García Ibáñez al Santo Padre en la Santa Misa. Greetings from the Archbishop of March 26, 2012, accessed April 1, 2012 (Spanish)
predecessor Office successor
Enrique Perez Serantes Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
1970–2007 		Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez
personal data
SURNAME Meurice, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meurice Estiú, Pedro Claro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de Cuba
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH San Luis , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2011
Place of death Miami , USA