The M+G+R
Foundation
Listing of
Cardinals, Bishops and Priests in the Opus
Dei Orbit
and/or
In the Priestly Society of
the Holy Cross
On a Worldwide Scale
PURPOSE
The purpose of this document is to illustrate the level of penetration
and control that the
Opus Dei
Prelature (in abbreviated
form, simply
Opus Dei) and
the
Priestly
Society of the Holy Cross - the clerical association
intrinsically united to Opus Dei - have in the Roman Catholic Church,
thus, the world at large.
The listing provided - according to the original sources - illustrate
who are
members,
supporters or
sympathizers of Opus Dei.
INTRODUCTION
If a priest is member of the
Opus
Dei Prelature, he is automatically also
member of the
Priestly Society of
the Holy Cross. On the other hand, it is technically possible
for a priest to be member of the
Priestly
Society without being member of the
Prelature.
(1) However...
In spirit, the
Opus Dei Prelature
and the
Prieslty Society of the Holy
Cross are one and the same organization although, very
conveniently, they have been given two different legal tags. We say
that in spirit they are one organization and the same because:
- In the very words of its legal constitution, "The Priestly Society of the Holy Cross
is erected as a clerical Association intrinsically united to the
Prelature". (2)
- They have the same head: "The
prelate of Opus Dei is (also)
the president of the Priestly
Society of the Holy Cross." (1)
- They have the same founder: The Priestly
Society of the Holy Cross was founded in 1943 by
Josemaría Escrivá. (3)
- They have the same origin: "Originally,
its function (of the Priestly Society) was to create a priestly body within the
Opus Dei and coming from the Opus Dei. Later, however, the intention
was to include (also)
diocesan priests in the Opus Dei." (3)
- They have the same aims: Since the Priestly Society is instrinsically united to the
Prelature, it is not possible to ignore the fact that the Opus Dei
works - according to the very words of its legal constitucion - "as an institution endowed with a unity of
spirit, of aims, of government and of formation". (2)
According to Wikipedia (consulted in July 2017),
"There are around 4000 priests, bishops
and deacons around the world who are members of the Priestly Society of
the Holy Cross".
(1)
This document should by no means be considered an exhaustive list of
cardinals, bishops and priets who are members or sympathizers of
Opus Dei and/or the
Priestly Society of the Holy Cross.
The main source, but not the only source, of names and biographical
data in this document is Wikipedia (details at the end of this
document).
Founder
and prelates of Opus Dei
Cardinals
Note:
Following, Cardinals
who promote or are linked to Opus Dei, not necessarily members
Camillo Ruini,
Vicar General Emeritus of Roma
(*1)
Alfonso
López Trujillo (died 2008), was president of the Pontifical
Council for the Family
Paul Poupard,
President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Giovanni
Battista Re, Vice-Dean (Sub-Dean) of the College of Cardinals
José
Saraiva Martins, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the
Causes of Saints
Sergio
Sebastiani, President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic
Affairs of the Holy See
They celebrated
the centennial of Escrivá in a
"solemn
concelebrated Mass on January 9 (2002)
in the Basilica of St. Eugene" (
source).
"The Basilica of St. Eugene is a church of
the city of Rome entrusted by the Pope to the care of priests of Opus
Dei in 1981. It is near the headquarters of Opus Dei." (
source)
(*1) The
international investigative commission on
Medjugorje
was organized (in 2010) with Cardinal Ruini as president (
source).
Ignace
Moussa I Daoud (died 2012), Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia,
Lebanon
Although not as
co-celebrant, he attended the concelebrated mass that took place on
January 9 (2002) in the basilica of St. Eugene for the centenary of
Escrivá (
source).
In another place, and at the end of a mass that was part of the same
centenary, he exclaimed
"May Opus
Dei be an element of hope in Lebanon!" (
source)
Christoph
Schönborn, Archbishop of Wien, Austria
On the occasion
of Escrivá's centenary,
"In
the Viennese Cathedral of Saint Stephen, Cardinal Schönborn
concelebrated with two other bishops before a congregation of about
three thousand" (
source)
Francis George
(died 2015), Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois
On the occasion
of the hundredth anniversary of Escrivá's birth,
"In Chicago, where Opus Dei first came to
the United States more than 50 years ago, 2000 people came to a Mass
for Blessed Josemaria celebrated by Francis Cardinal George." (
source)
Cormac
Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, England
He
"was the chief celebrant for a (Escrivá's)
Centennial Mass attended by 1800 at
Westminster Cathedral in London" (
source)
László
Pacifik Paskai (Budapest, Hungary) (died 2015)
Joachim
Meisner (Cologne, Germany) (died 2017)
(*2)
Leo
Scheffczyck (Cologne, Germany) (died 2005)
(*3)
Adrianus
Johannes Simonis (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Jean-Marie
Lustiger (Paris, France) (died 2007)
Miguel
Obando Bravo (Managua, Nicaragua)
Edward
Bede Clancy (Sydney, Australia) (died 2014)
Nasrallah
Pierre Sfeir (Bkerké, Lebanon)
They are
cardinals who in the respective cities celebrated the centenary of
Escrivá with a mass for the faithful of his diocese. (
source)
(*2) The
work of Cardinal Joachim Meisner
"The
Charism of Opus Dei in the Church" is one of the works contained
in a book published on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of
the founder of Opus Dei. (
source)
(*3) The
work of Cardinal Leo Scheffczyck
"Grace
in the Spirituality of Josemaría Escrivá" is one
of the works contained in a book published on the occasion of the
centenary of the birth of the founder of Opus Dei. (
source)
Josef Frings
(died 1978), Archbishop Emeritus of Cologne (Germany
)
since 1942 to 1969
"Through the petition of Cardinal Frings,
then archbishop of Cologne, the first members of Opus Dei arrived in
Cologne in 1952" (
source)
Jaime Sin (died
2005), Archbishop Emeritus of Manila (Philippines)
Presided at a
centennial mass in Manila for Josemaría Escrivá, saying
"Blessed Josemaria and his message are not
only for Opus Dei, but for the whole Church" (
source).
Dionigi
Tettamanzi (died 2017), Archbishop Emeritus of Milano (Italy)
In 2013, in
Milan, at a Mass in honor of Josemaría Escrivá, on the
first occasion of his feast, he affirmed in his homily
"we recognize in this saint, and in his
work, a great gift of God to the Church and to each of us in particular"
(
source)
Antonio
María Rouco Varela, Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid (Spain)
Francisco
Álvarez Martínez, Archbishop Emeritus of (Spain)
In 2002, they
concelebrated a mass before nine thousand people in the Basilica of St.
Paul Outside the Walls (Rome) for people who had come from Spain for
the canonization of Escrivá (
source).
Jorge
María Mejía (died 2014), Archivist Emeritus of the
Vatican Secret Archives
In 2002, he
concelebrated a mass in Rome as thanksgiving for the granted
canonization of Escrivá, a concelebrated Mass with sixty bishops
and priests, for the people of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia
who had come to the event. (
source)
Bernard
Agré de Abidjan (died 2014), Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan,
Ivory Coast
In 2002, in
Rome, he celebrated a mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of
Escrivá just granted, for French speakers. (
source)
Frédéric
Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi (died 2007), Archbishop of Kinshasa
In 2013, on the
first occasion of the feast of Escrivá since his canonization,
nine bishops from various Congolese dioceses concelebrated the Mass in
honor of Escrivá in the cathedral of Kinshasa (Democratic
Republic of the Congo), presiding over Cardinal Etsou. (
source)
Norberto
Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of México, Federal District
Juan
José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
(*4)
They are
cardinals who have spoken publicly and favorably of the canonization of
Escrivá. (
source)
(*4) Juan
José Omella was Bishop of Barbastro-Monzón (Spain);
Barbastro is the native town of Escrivá.
Angelo Amato,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
He presided in
2014 the celebration in which Álvaro del Portillo - former
prelate of Opus Dei - was proclaimed "Blessed" (
source), dedicating
words to him like
"There are many
virtues that Blessed Álvaro lived in a heroic way" (
source).
Antonio
José González Zumárraga (died 2008),
Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, Ecuador
In 2002,
"in Quito's cathedral, ten bishops and
forty priests concelebrated a Mass presided over by Archbishop Antonio
Cardinal Gonzalez in memory of the centennial (of
Escrivá)
. Among those
attending were vice-president Pedro Pinto..." (
source)
Nicolás
de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop Emeritus
of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
In 2002,
"some 50,000 stamps have been put into
circulation in the Dominican Republic on the occasion of the centennial
of ... Josemaría's birth. Among those attending (the
presentation ceremony)
was Cardinal
Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez". (
source)
Bernard
Francis Law (Boston), Archpriest Emeritus of the Saint Mary Major
Basilica
(*5)
Theodore
McCarrick (Washington D.C), Archbishop Emeritus of Washington,
District of Columbia
Jorge
Bergoglio (Buenos Aires), Cardinal en 2001
Eugênio
de Araújo Sales (died 2012) (Rio de Janeiro), Archbishop
They are
cardinals who, in June 2001, in the respective cities, presided over
masses celebrating the liturgical feast corresponding to Escrivá
for having been declared "Blessed" (before his canonization). (
source)
(*5) Bernard
Law was
involved in a sexual abuse scandal,
protecting priests ... and was relocated to Rome in different positions
of the Roman Curia, preventing him from being tried. (
source)
Michele
Giordano
(died 2010), Archbishop Emeritus of Naples, Italy
In 2001,
together with the Minister of Industry and Commerce and other public
figures, he intervened in a convention entitled
"Blessed Josemaria and the Social
Doctrine of the Church: Experiences of Human and Social Promotion in
the World", which took place at the Theatre
Reggia in Naples. (
source)
Manuel
Monteiro de Castro
Major
Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary, former Secretary
of the Congregation for Bishops. In 2014, he referred to Monsignor
Álvaro del Portillo as "an exemplary priest" and also expressed
his great joy at the forthcoming beatification. (
source)
Agostino
Vallini,
Vicar General Emeritus of Roma
In 2014, at the
Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, he celebrated a mass in
thanksgiving for the (then) recent beatification of Bishop Alvaro del
Portillo, prelate of Opus Dei. (
source)
Santos
Abril y Castelló, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica of
Saint Mary Major
In 2014, at the
Basilica of Saint Mary Major, he celebrated a mass in thanksgiving for
the (then) recent beatification of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, prelate
of Opus Dei. (
source)
Daniel
Nicholas
DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
In 2017 he was
one of the bishops (being he, in addition, Cardinal) that in the United
States celebrated masses for the feast of Escrivá. (
source)
Donald William
Wuerl,
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Sean
Patrick O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Kevin Joseph
Farrell, Prefect of Laity, Family and Life (Roman Curia)
They are
cardinals who in 2015 (
source)
or in 2014 (
source),
in the United States, celebrated masses for the feast of
Escrivá. (Kevin Farrell was appointed cardinal in 2016)
Federico
Tedeschini (died 1959), Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter
In 1952
Cardinal Tedeschini took office as Cardinal Protector of Opus Dei,
according to the then existing canon law. (
source)
Giuseppe
Bertello, President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
On April 19,
2017, he ordained 31 priests of the Opus Dei Prelature from 16
different countries. The ceremony took place in the Basilica of St.
Eugene in Rome (
source).
"The Basilica of St. Eugene is a
church of the city of Rome entrusted by the Pope to the care of priests
of Opus Dei in 1981. It is near the headquarters of Opus Dei." (
source)
Marcelo
González Martín (died 2004), Archbishop Emeritus of
Toledo, Spain
Jorge Medina
Estévez, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Their testimony
is recorded in a book by several authors on Escrivá,
"Así le vieron" ("That's how
they saw him"), a book that contains testimonies about the founder of
the Opus Dei (
source 1,
source
2)
Péter
Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
In 2011 he was
named
"Doctor Honoris Causa"
by the University of Navarra under the direction of
"The Great Chancellor of the University
and prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría". In
that year, he was president of the Council of Episcopal Conferences of
Europe. (
source)
Ricardo
Blázquez Pérez, Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
He was one of
more than 40 bishops (being he, in addition, Cardinal) who in Spain
celebrated masses for the death of Javier Echevarría, prelate of
Opus Dei, in 2016. (
source)
Andrzej
Maria Deskur (died 2011), President Emeritus of the Pontifical
Council for Social Communications
"Cardinal Deskur, an admirer of St.
Josemaria and a great friend of his successor at the head of Opus Dei,
Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, spoke to the Cardinal of Krakow (Karol
Wojtyła, future John Paul II)
, when
he came to Rome, on the Opus Dei and its founder." (
source)
James
Aloysius Hickey (died 2004), Archbishop Emeritus of Washington,
District of Columbia
In his own
words,
"I soon had a great
appreciation for ... Josemaría. I deepened my interest in his
figure and my love for the initiative he had undertaken." (
source)
James Francis
Stafford, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
(#1)
Stanisław
Ryłko, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
(#2)
Robert
Sarah,
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments
(#2)
Lluís
Martínez Sistach, Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain
(#2)
Renato
Raffaele Martino, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace
(#2)
Carlos
Osoro Sierra, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
(#3)
Roger
Etchegaray, Vice-Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals
(#4)
Antonio
Cañizares Llovera, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
(#5)
Crescenzio
Sepe, Archbishop of Naples, Italy
(#6)
Franz
Cardinal König (died 2004), Archbishop Emeritus of Wien,
Austria
(#7)
Ángel
Suquía Goicoechea (died 2006), Archbishop Emeritus of
Madrid, Spain
(#8)
Luis
Aponte Martínez (died 2012), Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan
de Puerto Rico
(#9)
Silvio
Angelo
Pio Oddi (died 2001), Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the
Clergy
(#10)
Cardinals Count
As of August 6, 2017, there are
223 living cardinals worldwide
(of which 121 are cardinal electors) (
source).
In the list above, adding up cardinals members of Opus Dei as well as
those who promote or are linked to Opus Dei, results in
42 living cardinals (in
addition to 25 deceased) who, at least, are sympathizers; and it is
understood that it is not an exhaustive list. That is,
at least 18 percent of the living
cardinals
in the world are, at least, sympathizers of Opus Dei.
Bishops
Antonio
Arregui Yarza
Luis
Gleisner Wobbe
Titular Bishop
of Mididi, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of La Serena, Chile.
Alfonso
Delgado Evers
Archbishop
Emeritus of San Juan de Cuyo, former Bishop of Santo Tomé,
former Bishop of Posadas, Argentina.
Antônio
Augusto Dias Duarte
Titular Bishop
of Tuscamia, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de
Janeiro. Doctorate in Moral Theology at the
University
of Navarra.
Robert
Finn
Bishop of
Kansas City - Saint Joseph, Missouri (until his resignation in 2015).
In 2012, Finn was convicted for failing to report suspected child abuse
in connection with the Fr. Shawn Ratigan child pornography case. The
Vatican announced that Finn had resigned from the Diocese of Kansas
City on April 21, 2015.
John Barres
Ricardo
García García
Prelate of
Yauyos, Peru.
Juan
Ignacio González Errazúriz
Francisco
de Guruceaga Iturriza (died 2012)
Bishop of
Margarita, former Bishop of La Guaira, former Auxiliary Bishop of
Ciudad Bolivar. He resigned in 2001.
"In
1996, de Guruceaga suspended Diaz's priest's license for 20 years.
Fearing scandal for the church, the bishop (Guruceaga)
never brought the allegations to criminal
authorities." (
source)
Ignacio
María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea (died 1998)
Bishop of
Chiclayo, and former Prelate of Yauyos, Peru.
José
Horacio Gómez
Archbishop of
Los Angeles, California; former Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas; and
former auxiliary for the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, United States
of America. Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the
University
of Navarra. Fortune Magazine listed him as one of the top 50 most
influential Latinos in the U.S. He was ordained priest of Opus Dei by
Cardinal Franz
König at the
sanctuary
of
Torreciudad.
Philippe
Jean-Charles Jourdan
Klaus
Küng
Bishop of Sankt
Pölten, former Bishop of Feldkirch, Austria.
Juan
Ignacio Larrea Holguín (died 2006)
Archbishop of
Guayaquil, former Bishop of Quito, former Military Ordinary, former
Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador. First member of the Opus Dei
prelature in Ecuador. Currently, the Archdiocese of Guayaquil is
preparing the process of its canonization.
Rogelio
Ricardo Livieres Plano (died 2015)
Bishop emeritus
of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Ciudad
del Este in Paraguay from 2004 to 2014, when he was deposed by Pope
Francisco for
"serious pastoral
reasons" and for
"thus been
convenient for the Church of Paraguay". Doctor in Canon Law by
the
University
of Navarra. He was vicar of the prelature of the Holy Cross and
Opus Dei in Buenos Aires.
Rafael
Llano Cifuentes
Bishop of Nova
Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, former auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of
São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Anthony
Muheria
Archbishop of
Nyeri, Former Bishop of Kitui, Former Bishop of Embu, Kenya.
Francisco
Polti Santillán
Bishop of Santo
Tome, Argentina.
Jaume
Pujol
Balcells
Archbishop of
Tarragona, Spain. He holds a doctorate in Theology from the
University
of Navarra. He worked as a professor of Religious Pedagogy at the
Faculty of Theology at the University of Navarra. In the same
university also directed the Department of Pastoral and Catechesis and
the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences.
Ugo Eugenio
Puccini Banfi
Bishop of Santa
Marta, and former Auxiliary Bishop of Barranquilla, Colombia.
Luis
Sánchez-Moreno Lira (died 2009)
Archbishop of
Arequipa, former Prelate of Yauyos, Peru.
Fernando
Sáenz Lacalle
Archbishop
Emeritus of San Salvador, former Apostolic Administrator of the
Military of San Salvador. In 1997, in his capacity as apostolic
administrator of the Military Ordinariate, he was promoted to Brigadier
General of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.
Juan
Antonio Ugarte Pérez
Archbishop of
Cuzco, former Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay, and former Auxiliary Bishop
of Yauyos, Peru. At the
University
of Navarra (Spain) he pursued a degree in Theology and began
studies in Canon Law. In Peru formed the first group of professors who
started the
University
of Piura - university founded on the initiative of Josemaría
Escrivá.
Adolfo
Rodríguez Vidal (died 2003)
Archbishop of
Cuzco, former Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay, and former Auxiliary Bishop
of Yauyos, Peru. He was ordained priest in 1948 by
Leopoldo
Eijo y Garay, Bishop of Madrid-Alcalá, who
"played a particularly important role in
the life of Opus Dei and its founder" (
source).
In 1965 he obtained his doctorate in Canon Law at the
University
of Navarra. Between 1958 and 1965 he held the position of Delegate
of Opus Dei for several countries in Latin America.
John J. Myers
Archbishop of
Newark, New Jersey (until 2016), United States. His resignation was
accepted by Pope Francis on November 7, 2016. Though the customary form
of spoken address for an archbishop is "Your Excellency", he prefers to
be addressed as "Your Grace". In 2002, he was among the two-thirds of
sitting bishops and acting diocese administrators that the
Dallas
Morning News found had allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to
continue working. In February 2014, the
New York Times
reported Archbishop Myers planned to retire to a "palace" being
expanded to 7,500 square feet (700 square meters) at his direction in
Pittstown, New Jersey.
Stephen
Lee
Bun-Sang
Bishop of Macao
(China), former Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong,
"he belongs to Opus Dei, studied in Navarra
and was ordained in Torreciudad".
(
source)
Jaime
Rafael
Fuentes Martín
Titular Bishop
of Minas, Uruguay. In 1973 he received his doctorate in Theology from
the
University
of Navarra.
Juan
Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru
Secretary of
the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts since 2017, Bishop of
Civitate, Italy. Born in Spain. In 2013 he was elected by Pope Francis
coordinator of the commission for the reform of the
Institute
for the Works of Religion, also known as Vatican Bank. He was Dean
of the Faculty of Canon Law at the
Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross, from its creation in 1984 until 1993,
and again in 1995-1999.
Hugo
Nicolás Barbaro
Bishop of San
Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña since 2008,
Argentina. Born in Argentina. He obtained a degree in Philosophy at the
University
of Navarra in 1980. He was ordained priest in 1980, at the
Sanctuary of
Torreciudad, Spain. He is a member of the Commissions of Catechesis
and Biblical Pastoral, and of Catholic Education in the Argentine
Episcopal Conference.
Levi Bonatto
Ignacio
Carrasco de Paula
President
Emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Titular Bishop of
Thapsus.
Born in Spain. He was professor of bioethics at the Catholic University
of the Sacred Heart in Rome and director of the Institute of Bioethics.
Fernando
José Castro Aguayo
Bishop of
Margarita, former Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Venezuela. Born in
Venezuela. He studied ecclesiastical philosophy and theology at the
"Studium Generale" of the Opus Dei
prelature in Venezuela and at the school of the Holy Cross in Rome. He
obtained his doctorate in theology from the
University
of Navarra, Spain.
Juan
Ignacio González Errázuriz
Bishop of San
Bernardo, Chile. Born in Chile. He studied Philosophy and Theology in
the
"Studium Generale" of the
Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. He holds a degree and a
doctorate in Canon Law from the
Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross. He was General Chaplain and professor
of Theology and Canon Law at the
University
of Los Andes - a university openly affiliated with Opus Dei.
Carlos
Lema
García
Titular Bishop
of Alava, Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil. Born in Brazil.
Doctorate in Dogmatic Theology in 1987, in Rome, in the Roman Academic
Center of Holy Cross, today
Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross.
Richard
James Umbers
Auxiliary
Bishop of Sydney, Australia. Born in New Zealand. He is currently the
youngest Catholic bishop in Australia, and is also the first priest of
Opus Dei to be appointed bishop in Australia. He studied at the
Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross, Rome, obtaining a degree in Theology.
He studied at the
University
of Navarra, Spain, where he received a Doctorate in Philosophy. He
was ordained priest by Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei,
at the
Sanctuary
of Torreciudad, Spain.
Enrique
Pèlach (died 2007)
Bishop Emeritus
of Abancay, Peru. Born in Spain. He arrived in Peru in 1957, along with
four other Spanish priests: they were the first to go to the new
prelature of Yauyos, newly created and entrusted by the Holy See to
Opus Dei. He was Vicar General of the Prelature.
Note:
Following, three bishops found in
other sources
Isidro
Sala Rivera
Bishop Emeritus
of Abancay, Peru. Born in Spain. He belongs to Opus Dei (
source).
He was ordained Bishop by the Bishops Ignacio María de Orbegozo
(principal consecrator), Enrique Pèlach and Juan Antonio Ugarte,
belonging all three to Opus Dei (
source).
Mario
Busquets Jordá
Bishop-Prelate
Emeritus of Chuquibamba, Peru. Born in Spain. He belongs to Opus Dei (
source).
He was ordained Bishop by Luis Sánchez-Moreno (principal
consecrator, Archbishop), Juan Antonio Ugarte (Bishop) and Juan Rino
Passigato (Bishop), being Sánchez-Moreno and Ugarte members of
Opus Dei (
source).
Gabino
Miranda Melgarejo
Auxiliary
Bishop Emeritus of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru - dismissed in 2013. In
2013,
"he was dismissed from his
position as Auxiliary Bishop of Ayacucho by the Vatican for pedophilia"
(
source).
"Cipriani (Cardinal, Opus
Dei, Archbishop of Lima)
showed his
discomfort over Miranda's ties to Opus Dei and asserted that he was not
a priest incardinated in that congregation" (
source).
The Opus Dei Information Office in Peru
"clarified that the priest was not one of
its members but was part of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross."
(
source).
Note:
The following are Bishops who
promote or are sympathizers to Opus Dei but are not necessarily members.
Because of material limitations, we can only list a few number of them.
This sample, in particular, contains mainly bishops from the United
States and Spain.
Jesús
Moliné Labarte/Labarta
Bishop Emeritus
of Chiclayo, Peru. Born in Spain. He was ordained bishop by Bishop
Ignacio Maria Orbegozo of Opus Dei (
source).
In December 2003, in a public ceremony, he paid tribute to the founder
of Opus Dei, Josemaría Escrivá (
source;
date).
In 2007, he affirmed that
"I am not
a prominent member of Opus Dei, I am not even part of that Prelature,
which I value and highly value" (
source).
In 2013, at a public ceremony, he blessed an image of Escrivá (
source).
Serafim
de
Sousa Ferreira e Silva, Bishop Emeritus of Leiria-Fátima
(Portugal)
Anthony
Okonkwo Gbuji, Bishop Emeritus of Enugu (Nigeria)
Giuseppe
Costanzo, Archbishop Emeritus of Siracusa (Italy)
The above
listing is of
bishops who have spoken publicly and favorably of the canonization of
Escrivá. (
source)
Gustavo
García-Siller, Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas
Bernardito
Cleopas Auza, Archbishop, Permanent Observer to United Nations
Thomas
J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona
Walter
James Edyvean, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts
John
Gregory Kelly, Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas
The above
listing is of
bishops who in 2017, in the United States, celebrated masses for the
feast of Escrivá. (
source)
William
Edward Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Robert
Joseph Cunningham, Bishop of Syracuse, Nueva York
James
Vann Johnston, Jr., Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Michael
Fors Olson, Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas
Thomas
John Joseph Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois
Gabriel
Montalvo Higuera (died 2006), Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United
States of America
Mario
Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez, Auxiliary Bishop of
Washington, District of Columbia
Gerald
Thomas Walsh, Auxiliary Bishop of New York
Salvatore
Ronald Matano, Bishop of Rochester, Nueva York
George
Arthur Sheltz, Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
The above
listing is of bishops who in 2016, in the United States, celebrated
masses for the
feast of Escrivá. (
source)
John
Joseph O’Hara, Auxiliary Bishop of New York
Andrew
Harmon Cozzens, Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Edward
Bernard Scharfenberger, Bishop of Albany, Nueva York
John
Douglas Deshotel, Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana
Joseph
Anthony Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas
The above
listing is of bishops who celebrated masses in the United States
in 2015 for
the feast of Escrivá. (
source)
Salvatore
Joseph Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, California
William
Francis Murphy, Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre, Nueva York
Joseph
Nathaniel Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois
Lee
Anthony Piché, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Paul and
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Robert
William Finn, Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
(*6)
Kevin
William Vann, Bishop of Orange in California
Mark
Joseph Seitz, Bishop of El Paso, Texas
The above
listing is of bishops who celebrated masses in the United States in
2014 for
the feast of Escrivá. (
source)
(*6) In
2012, Finn was convicted for failing to report suspected child abuse.
He resigned in 2015. (
source)
Adolfo
González Montes (Almería, Cathedral)
Rafael Zornoza Boy (Cádiz, Cathedral)
Demetrio Fernández González (Córdoba, Cathedral)
Francisco
Javier Martínez (Granada, Cathedral),
Archbishop
Ginés Ramón García Beltrán (Guadix)
José Vilaplana Blasco (Huelva, Cathedral)
Amadeo Rodríguez Magro (Jaén, Cathedral)
José Mazuelos Pérez (Jerez, Cathedral)
Juan
José Asenjo Pelegrina (Sevilla, Cathedral),
Archbishop
Jesús
Sanz (Oviedo, Catedral),
Archbishop
Francisco Cases (Las Palmas, Cathedral)
Manuel Sánchez Monge (Santander, Cathedral)
Ciriaco Benavente (Albacete, Cathedral)
Gerardo Melgar (Ciudad Real, Cathedral)
José María Yanguas (Cuenca)
Atilano Rodríguez (Guadalajara, Cathedral)
Fidel
Herráez (Burgos,
church
of "Saint Josemaría"),
Archbishop
Julián López (León, Cathedral)
Manuel Herrero (Palencia, Cathedral)
Carlos López Hernández (Salamanca)
César Franco (Segovia, Cathedral)
Ricardo
Blázquez (Valladolid, Cathedral),
Archbishop
and Cardinal
Juan
José Omella (Barcelona),
Archbishop
(Cardinal in 2017)
Francesc Pardo (Girona)
Romà Casanova (Igualada)
Salvador Giménez Valls (Lleida, Cathedral)
Josep Àngel Saiz (Tarrasa, Cathedral)
Celso Morga Iruzubieta (Badajoz, Cathedral),
Archbishop
Francisco Cerro Chaves (Cáceres)
Jesús Fernández (A Coruña), auxiliary bishop
Luis Ángel de las Heras (Ferrol, Co-Cathedral)
Leonardo Lemos (Ourense, Cathedral)
Julián
Barrio (Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral),
Archbishop
Luis Quinteiro (Vigo, Co-Cathedral)
Carlos Escribano (Logroño, Cathedral)
Juan Antonio Reig (Alcalá de Henares, Cathedral)
Carlos
Osoro (Madrid, Cathedral),
Archbishop
and Cardinal
Joaquín López de Andújar (Getafe,
Cathedral)
José Manuel Lorca (Murcia, Cathedral)
Francisco
Pérez (Pamplona, in a sports stadium),
Archbishop
Antonio Aznárez (Tudela, Cathedral), auxiliary bishop
Mario Iceta (Bilbao, Cathedral)
Juan Carlos Elizalde (Vitoria)
Jesús Murgui (Alicante)
Casimiro López (Castellón, Co-Cathedral)
Antonio
Cañizares (Valencia, Cathedral),
Archbishop
and Cardinal
The above
listing is of
bishops who, in Spain, in the respective cities and places, celebrated
masses for the death of
Javier
Echevarría, prelate of Opus Dei, in December 2016. (
source)
Count
of Bishops in Spain
In the Spanish hierarchy, in July 2017, there are 52 diocesan bishops
and 14 metropolitan archbishops, of whom 4 are cardinals (
source)
(* 7). In
the list above (bishops who celebrated masses for the death of
Echevarría), we count 33 bishops (in addition to 2 auxiliary
bishops) and 11 archbishops, including all 4 metropolitan archbishops
who are cardinals in July 2017.
That is,
in Spain the 4 metropolitan
archbishops who are
cardinals are all - at least - sympathizers of Opus Dei. And adding up
the
number of the metropolitan archbishops plus the number of diocesan
bishops framed in the Spanish hierarchy, the result is that at least 66
percent of them are - at least - sympathizers of Opus Dei.
(*7)
Apart, there are 34 "emeritus" bishops (not counted as "diocesan
bishops" nor "metropolitan archbishops") and other (minority)
categories, which we are not counting or enumerating here. (see
the same source)
Another
Priests and/or Theologians
Luis Felipe
Areta
Athlete and
Spanish priest. He came to be 13 times champion of Spain of long jump.
Pablo
Blanco
Sarto, Spanish priest
Associate
Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the
University
of Navarra. Chaplain of the Faculty of Education and Psychology of
the University of Navarra.
Salvador
Canals Navarrete (died 1975)
Spanish priest.
He was auditor in the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. He was a member of
the Roman Pontifical Council for Social Communications and of the
Congregation for the Clergy.
Miguel
Delgado Galindo, Spanish priest
En 2004 fue
condecorado por Juan Pablo II, como "Capellán de Su Santidad".
Actualmente desde junio de 2011, al ser nombrado por Benedicto XVI, es
el nuevo Subsecretario del Consejo Pontificio para los Laicos.
José
María Hernández Garnica, Spanish priest (died 1972)
Mining
Engineer, Doctor of Natural Sciences and Doctor of Theology. The local
phase for the beatification process began in Madrid in 2005, and
concluded in Madrid in 2009.
José
Luis Illanes Maestre, Spanish priest
He was
professor of Theology at the
University
of Navarra and also at the
Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross. He was Vice-Dean and Dean of the
Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarra. Director of the
Josemaría Escrivá Historical Institute, based in Rome -
an institute that
"promotes
historical studies on the founder of Opus Dei" (
source).
César
Izquierdo, Spanish priest
Professor of
Theology at the
University
of Navarra. Member of the Theological Advisory Commission of the
Spanish Episcopal Conference.
C. John
McCloskey, Priest, USA
He was director
of the
Catholic Information Center
of the Archdiocese of Washington. Father McCloskey became better known
for helping several people convert to Catholicism, including
Sam Brownback
(current governor of Kansas),
Robert Bork
(attorney general and judge),
Lawrence Kudlow
(economist and government advisor under Ronald Reagan), and Dr.
Bernard
Nathanson (a prominent pro life activist who was converted).
Gonzalo
Redondo
Gálvez (died 2006)
He was Spanish
priest and historian, specialized in the study of the history of the
Church in Spain and the Francoism, professor in the
University
of Navarra.
Pedro Rodríguez García,
Spanish priest
Dean of the
Faculty of Theology of the
University
of Navarra (1992-1998), formerly Director of Studies and Director
of Research. President of the Board of Deans of the Faculties of
Theology of Spain (1996-1997).
Josep-Ignasi
Saranyana, Spanish priest
Ordinary
professor emeritus of the
University
of Navarra and member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical
Sciences (City of the Vatican). Author of more than 20 books.
Federico
Suárez Verdeguer, Spanish priest (died 2005)
He was
Secretary General of the University of Santiago and, later, National
Counselor of Education (1953). In 1975 was named chaplain of the
Spanish Royal House, position that maintained until his death, which
happened in Madrid in 2005.
Jesús
Urteaga Loidi, Spanish priest (died 2009)
He developed a
wide catechetical work through the magazine Mundo Cristiano, which he
founded in 1963, with Javier Ayesta, and several television programs
that granted him a notable popularity in the Spain of the sixties and
first five of the seventies. In 1965 he was awarded the National
Spanish Television Prize.
Lucio
Ángel Vallejo Balda, Spanish priest
Jurist and
expert in economic affairs. He was Secretary of the Prefecture for
Economic Affairs of the Holy See and former collaborator of Pope
Francis. On November 2, 2015 he was arrested by the Vatican
gendarmerie, accused of revealing secrets in the Vatileaks scandal. In July 2016 he
was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and thus locked up in a cell of
the Vatican gendarmerie.
Francisco
Varo Pineda, Spanish priest
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