Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada

Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada (also Pedro Ladislao González Estrada ; born June 27, 1866 in La Habana ; † April 22, 1937 in Marianao , La Habana Province , Cuba) was a Cuban Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana .

Life

Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada was ordained a priest on June 8, 1890 .

Pope Pius X appointed him Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana on September 16, 1903. The episcopal ordination donated him on October 28, 1903 Placide Louis Chapelle , the Archbishop of New Orleans , Louisiana ; The co-consecrator was Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar , Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba . With him, Braulio Orue Vivanco , the first bishop of Pinar del Río , and Buenaventura Finbarr Broderick , titular bishop of Iuliopolis and auxiliary bishop in San Cristóbal de la Habana, were ordained bishops. Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada renounced the diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana on January 2, 1925 and was appointed titular bishop of Attalea in Pamphylia .

He died at the age of 70 in Marianao in the Cuban province of La Habana and was buried in a mausoleum of the cathedral chapter of San Cristóbal in the Christopher Columbus cemetery in La Habana. When this mausoleum was abandoned in 1940, its bones were transferred to the general ossuary of the cemetery and have been considered lost ever since.

Web links

• Salvador Miranda : González Estrada, Pedro Ladislao. In: Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba. fiu.edu , Florida International University website (Spanish). 
• Entry on Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza	Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana 1903–1925	José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez (First Archbishop)