Cuban Faces of 2015 - Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba

Cuban Faces of 2015: Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez, Archbishop of
Santiago de Cuba / 14ymedio
Posted on December 30, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 29 December 2015 — He was working as an electrical
engineer specializing in telecommunications when, in 1980, he decided to
assume the habit. Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez was born in 1945, and
as a deacon did his first outstanding work alongside Father Jose Conrado
Rodriguez in the preparations for the Cuban Ecclesial Reflection, which
concluded in 1985, when he was ordained as a priest. Eleven years later
he would be consecrated as a bishop.

The current Archbishop Primate of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
and President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba is also the
custodian of the image of the Virgin of Charity venerated in the Shrine
of Cobre. During this year, and with the presence of Pope Francis in
Cuba, he announced the jubilee year that will end in September 2016, to
mark the centenary of the declaration of the Virgin as patroness of Cuba.

Those skilled in ecclesiastical intricacies consider him a likely
successor to Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino as Archbishop of Havana,
which could happen around next Easter.

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