Bishop Mariano Vivanco Valiente (3 April 1933 in

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– 23 August 2004 in

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, Cuba) was

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of the

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(1987–2004). He studied

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at El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana. He was ordained a priest on May 28, 1961, in Havana, Cuba. He was assigned to the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar “ Our Lady of Pilar” in Havava. In 1977 he was named Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Havana and at the same time named rector of the Santuario de San Lázaro del Rincón. He was appointed Bishop of Matanzas on May 18, 1987, by

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and consecrated on June 29, 1987, in the Cathedral of Havana by Mons.

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (18 October 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archdiocese of Havana, Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the se ...

, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana assisted by Mons. Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba and Mons. Fernando Ramón Prego Casal, Bishop of the Diocese of Cienfuegos . Bishop Vivanco died of a heart attack on August 23, 2004, in Matanzas Mariano Vivanco has a sibling named Laura Vivanco.

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