Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza

Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza ( born January 28, 1928 in Valencia, Venezuela, † February 10, 2012 in Caracas ) was a Roman Catholic bishop of La Guaira.

Life

Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza studied at the Colegio La Salle in Valencia, then law at the Universidad Simón Bolívar. After studying philosophy and theology in Rome, he was in 1958 his doctorate with a canonical work on the legal status of the Church in Venezuela at the Angelicum a doctorate in law. At the University of Navarra, he graduated in journalism. He joined the Community of Opus Dei and received on 14 August 1960, the ordination in the Papal Basilica of San Miguel in Madrid. In 1963 he returned to Venezuela and became a chaplain in the Military Academy of Venezuela.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on March 31, 1967 Titular Bishop of Villa Regis and appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Ciudad Bolívar. The Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela, José Humberto Cardinal Quintero Parra, donated to him on 21 May 1967, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Crispulo Benítez Fontúrvel, Archbishop of Barquisimeto, and Crisanto Darío Mata Cova, Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar. On June 18, 1969, he was appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of Margarita on Margarita Island. After four years of Paul VI appointed him. October 2, 1973 Bishop of the Diocese of La Guaira. In 1978 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar.

On 18 October 2001, Pope John Paul II took his resignation for health reasons.