Archbishop Cruz is the 54-book Archbishop, who adds works on Catholic marriage, the vocation of the laity, the management of the temporal assets of the Church and a revision of the rules of Filipino bishops on cases of abuse. Sexual.
ROME – Archbishop Oscar Cruz died Wednesday morning from the coronavirus. He is believed to be the 10th Catholic bishop to die of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The current Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan in the Philippines has said that Archbishop Cruz, his Archbishop Emeritus, died as a result of “multiple organ failure through a critical infection with COVID-19,” according to the Conference’s official media outlet. of the Philippines of Catholic Bishops.
Archbishop Cruz died at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in the town of San Juan at the age of 85 and was hospitalized since 10 August.
“He was a faithful shepherd. He was a brave prophet. He was a brilliant canonical lawyer . . . My center is grateful to have met in this life a wonderful cleric like Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz,” Archbishop Socrates Villegas wrote on Facebook in August. 26.
Archbishop Cruz led the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan for nearly two decades, from 1991 until his retirement in 2009. He also served as president of the Episcopal Conference of the Philippines from 1994 to 1999.
As archbishop, he was an outspoken critic of political corruption, as well as of Philippine presidents and politicians. He also organized a crusade against illegal gambling, according to the bishops’ conference.
Archbishop Cruz is the 54-book Archbishop, who adds works on Catholic marriage, the vocation of the laity, the management of the temporal assets of the Church and a revision of the rules of Filipino bishops on cases of abuse. Sexual.
After his retirement, he served as judicial vicar of the Philippine National Court of Appeals.
His funeral will be on 28 August at the Cathedral Saint-Jean-Vangéliste in Dagupan. Due to the pandemic, your funeral will be open to the public, but can be viewed live on social media.
Archbishop Cruz, the third Filipino bishop to hire COVID-19. Bishop Broderick Pabillo, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila, and Bishop Emeritus Deogracias Iñiguez de Kalookan have recovered after positive for the coronavirus.
There have been more than 200,000 cases of coronavirus recorded in the Philippines and 3,137 deaths at the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
Among the 10 bishops believed to have died in the pandemic, Archbishop Cruz is the first known death from COVID-19 in Asia. At least 4 bishops died in South America, 3 in Europe, one in North America, and one in Africa.
Bishop Henrique Soares da Costa de Palmares, Brazil, died on 18 July at the age of 57 after being hospitalized for more than two weeks in the intensive care unit of Hospital St. Joseph Memorial, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Archbishop emeritus Pedro Erclio Simon de Passo Fundo died on June 1 at the age of 78 from COVID-19, and Archbishop emeritus Aldo Pagotto of Paraiba, who already suffered from cancer, died on April 14 from respiratory failure in a care unit intensive for coronavirus. patients at the age of 70 years.
Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini of El Alto, Bolivia, died on July 15 after contracting the coronavirus. Originally from Italy, the 66-year-old had served in the Bolivian diocese for 10 years.
In the United States, Boston Auxiliary Bishop Emilio Allue died on April 26 at the age of 85 from COVID-19 headaches. Bishop Vincent Malone, 88, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Liverpool in England, died on May 18 after testing positive for coronavirus a week earlier.
At least two African bishops have died from the coronavirus. The Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Meru in Kenya, Monsignor Silas Silvius Njiru, died in Turin, Italy on April 28 from COVID-19 at the age of 91, to the Consolata missionaries.
Retired Bishop Gérard Mulumba Kalemba of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, died on 15 April at the age of a clinic in Kinshasa.
The first bishop to die in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Bishop Angelo Moreschi, Italian bishop of a missionary region of the Ethiopian apostolic vicariate of Gambella, died at the age of 67 in Brescia, a city in italy’s Lombardy region.
In addition, two bishops died after recovering from the coronavirus; Chinese Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu died on May 7, months after recovering from the coronavirus; the 98-year-old bishop of the diocese of Nanyang in Henan Province is believed to have been the 198-year-old user. to the disease when he left the hospital on February 14, according to UCAN News.
In Bangladesh, Archbishop Moses Costa of Chittagong died in hospital on July 13 from a series of strokes two weeks after recovering from COVID-19. He had tested positive for the coronavirus on June 14 after being hospitalized in Dhaka for severe respiratory problems.
After being repaired in the intensive care unit, the bishop’s condition improved, leading to a negative check for COVID-19 on June 22. News. Archbishop Costa has passed away at the age of 69.
As of August 26, there were more than 23. 9 million documented cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. At least another 820,209 people died in the pandemic.
Courtney Mares / CNA
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