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José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán

His Eminence
José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R.
Cardinal, Bishop of David
Diocese David
Appointed 2 July 1999
Predecessor Daniel Enrique Núñez Núñez
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe da Copertino
Orders
Ordination 13 July 1969
Consecration 18 January 1986
by José Sebastián Laboa Gallego
Created Cardinal 14 February 2015
by Pope Francis
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1944-02-24) 24 February 1944 (age 73)
Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
Nationality Spanish & Panamanian
Denomination Roman Catholic
Previous post
  • Bishop of Chitré (1994-1999)
  • Titular Bishop of Parthenia (1985-1994)
  • Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá (1985-1994)
Motto "Praesumus si prosumus"
(We have authority if we serve)
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Styles of
José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R.
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See David

José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R. (born 24 February 1944), is a Spanish-born Panamanian friar of the Order of Augustinian Recollects and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as Bishop of David, Panama, since 1999.

On 4 January 2015, Pope Francis announced that he would make him a cardinal on 14 February. At that ceremony, he was assigned the Church of San Giuseppe da Copertino as his titular church.

Lacunza was born in Pamplona, Spain, in 1944. He was accepted as a candidate by the Recollect friars and studied at the St. Joseph Minor Seminary which they operated in Artieda, Zaragoza. Following this, he was received into the novitiate of the Order, at the conclusion of which he professed temporary religious vows and received the habit of the Order on 14 September 1964. He was then sent to do his university-level studies, first at the seminary run by the friars at their Monastery of Our Lady of Valentuñana in Sos del Rey Católico, Zaragoza, and later at the Augustinian Seminary of Our Lady of Consolation in Pamplona. Following graduation, he was sent to do his theological studies at the Major Seminary of Our Lady of Pamplona. At the conclusion of his studies, he professed his solemn vows as a full and permanent member of the Order on 16 September 1967 and he was ordained priest on 13 July 1969, both occurring in Pamplona.


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