Ricardo Watty Urquidi

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

Life

Ricardo Watty Urquidi Manuel, the eldest son of five children of Mexico, DF German -born businessman Karl Alexis Watty Widmann (1911-1973) and the Mexican mother Maria de los Dolores Urquidi, lived with his family in 1951 in Mexico City. He joined the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit in Tlalpan. At 18, he renounced U.S. 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 of the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Alajuela in Costa Rica. From 1965 to 1968 he studied theology in scholasticate of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit and the Institute of the Archdiocese of Mexico. He received on 8 June 1968, the priesthood and was a curate in the parish of Santa Cruz del Pedregal in Mexico City. Subsequently, he was a teacher in 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 university chaplain and pastor of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Mexicaltzingo. Subsequently, he served as episcopal commissioner pastoral Region VII of the Archdiocese of Mexico. From 1974 to 1980 he was Vice- Superior of his Order province in Mexico.

On May 27, 1980, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II, titular bishop of Macomades and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México. He received his episcopal consecration on 19 July 1980, 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 appointed Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

In 2008 he was appointed Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. He died there on November 1, 2011 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was laid on November 2, 2011, with great public participation in the Cathedral de Tepic, in whose crypt he also finds his final resting place. The funeral mass was held by 72 priests, including Fernando Torre, Superior General of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit and six priests of his community, as well as the bishops Alfonso H. Robles Cota, emeritus bishop of Tepic, Monsignor Mario Espinosa Contreras, Bishop of Nayarit Mazatlan and Bishop Ramon Calderon Batres, Bishop of Linares.

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

He had a variety of tasks in the Mexican bishops' conference:

  • Member of the Permanent Council of the metropolitan region
  • 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 " Itinerant People " ( migrant and refugee pastoral )
  • President of the Episcopal Commission for the Laity
  • Member of the Permanent Council for the Pastoral Region Northeast
  • Presidency of the Council of the Mexican Episcopal Conference in the period 2001-2003.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic Roman Catholic Diocese of Alajuela Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico Holy orders Roman Catholic Diocese of Nuevo Laredo
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