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Name
  
Alfredo Petit-Vergel


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Born
  
July 24, 1936
Havana, Cuba

Education
  
Pontifical Gregorian University

Alfredo Petit-Vergel (born July 24, 1936 in Havana, Cuba ) is the Titular Bishop of Buslacena and the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Havana.

He started his studies at El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana and then finished his religious studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

He was ordained a priest on December 23, 1961 in Rome. When he returned to Havana he was assigned to the parish of Sagrado Corazon (Sacred Heart) in Vedado. Then the parish of Salvador del Mundo in El Cerro. He was a professor at the San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary and assigned to the parish of San Francisco de Paula and chaplain of the San Francisco de Paula Hospital. He speaks Spanish, Italian, French, English, and German.

He was appointed Titular Bishop of Buslacena and the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Havana by Pope John Paul II on November 16, 1991. He was consecrated a bishop on January 12, 1992 in the Cathedral of Havana by Mons. Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino Archbishop of Havana, assisted by Mons. Faustino Sainz Muñoz Pro-Nuncio in Cuba and Mons. Pedro Claro Meurice-Estíu, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba.

References

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