Ricardo Watty Urquidi

Ricardo Manuel Watty Urquidi MSpS (born July 16, 1938 in San Diego , California , † November 1, 2011 in Lomas de Chapultepec , Mexico City ) was a Mexican religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic .

Life

Ricardo Manuel Watty Urquidi, eldest son of five children of the German businessman Karl Alexis Watty Widmann (1911–1973) born in Mexico, DF and the Mexican mother Maria de los Dolores Urquidi, lived with his family from 1951 in Mexico City. He joined the Order of Missionaries of the Holy Spirit in Tlalpan. At 18, he renounced US citizenship and retained his Mexican citizenship. From 1959 to 1961 he studied philosophy at the college of his order. From 1962 to 1964 he was Prefect at the Minor Seminary of the Alajuela Diocese in Costa Rica. From 1965 to 1968 he studied theology in the Scholasticate of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit and at the Institute of the Archdiocese of Mexico .

Ordained a priest on June 8, 1968, he was vicar in the parish of Santa Cruz del Pedregal in Mexico City. Then he was a teacher at the Minor Seminary in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Back in Mexico City, he was a teacher at the Novitiate of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit. From 1971 to 1975 he was a university chaplain and pastor of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Mexicaltzingo. He then headed Pastoral Care Region VII of the Archdiocese of Mexico as an episcopal representative. From 1974 to 1980 he was vice-superior of his religious province in Mexico.

On May 27, 1980, he was appointed titular bishop of Macomades and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of México by Pope John Paul II . He was ordained bishop on July 19, 1980 by the Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada ; Co- consecrators were José de Jesús Madera Uribe MSpS, Bishop of Fresno in California, and Alfredo Torres Romero , Bishop of Toluca in Mexico.

In 1989 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Nuevo Laredo , Tamaulipas, Mexico.

In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. He died there on November 1, 2011 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was laid out on November 2, 2011 with great public sympathy in the Cathedral de Tepic, in whose crypt he also found his final resting place. The funeral mass was held by 72 priests, including Fernando Torre, Superior General of the Congregation of Missionaries of the Holy Spirit and six priests of his parish, as well as Bishops Alfonso H. Robles Cota, Bishop Emeritus of Tepic, Mario Espinosa Contreras , Bishop of Nayarit Mazatlan and Bishop Ramón Calderón Batres , Bishop of Linares.

Watty Urquidi was founded in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed as one of the visitators of the Congregation Legionaries of Christ , especially for Mexico and Central America.

He had various tasks in the Mexican Bishops' Conference :

• Member of the Permanent Council of the Metropolitan Area
• President of the Episcopal Commission for Consecrated Life
• Member of the Episcopal Commission for Education
• Member of the Episcopal Commission for Youth
• Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family
• Member of the Episcopal Commission for "People on the Move" (migrants and refugee pastoral care)
• President of the Episcopal Commission for the Laity
• Member of the Permanent Council for the Northeast Pastoral Region
• Chaired the Council of the Mexican Bishops' Conference in 2001-2003.

Web links

• Entry on Ricardo Watty Urquidi on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on June 2, 2017.
• Mons. Ricardo Watty Urquidi, curriculum
• The Hamburg family Watty, genealogy
• Genealogical data

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fallce obispo de Tepic ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Diario, November 2, 2011 
2. ↑ Obispo Ricardo, gracias por el don de tu vida  ( 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.  
3. ↑ Ricardo Watty Urquidi ( Memento of the original dated August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , La Senda, Publicación de formación e información católica de la Diócesis de Tepic, Méxicois de Tepic, México, November 3, 2011 
4. ↑ Vatican : Declaration of the Holy See on the Apostolic Visitation of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ , May 1, 2010

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Bishop of Nuevo Laredo 1989–2008	Gustavo Rodriguez Vega
Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota	Bishop of Tepic 2008-2011	Luis Artemio Flores Calzada