- Manuel Aurelio Cruz
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Manuel Cruz
Reference style The Most Reverend Spoken style Your Excellency Religious style Monsignor Posthumous style not applicable Manuel Aurelio Cruz (born December 2, 1953) is a Cuban American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark.
Biography
Manuel Cruz was born in Havana to Juan and Caridad Cruz. He fled to the United States with his parents in 1966 to escape the revolution, living in Florida before settling in Union City, New Jersey. In his youth, he spent eight years as a member of the emergency room staff at Saint James Hospital in Newark. Cruz studied at Seton Hall University in South Orange, from where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in philosophy, and at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, earning a Master's in Sacred Scripture.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Peter Gerety on May 31, 1980, and then served as a parochial vicar of Holy Rosary Church in Elizabeth. Cruz became parochial vicar of Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey in 1982, and a member of the Archdiocesan Vocations Committee in 1986.
In 1995, he was made a chaplain at Saint Michael's Medical Center and later was named director of the archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Care in 2003. He was raised to the rank of Honorary Chaplain of His Holiness in 2000, and also served as vice president of the Mission and Ministry for Catholic Health and Human Services, the health care and social services arm of the Archdiocese.
On June 9, 2008, Cruz was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Newark and Titular Bishop of Gaguari by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 8 from Archbishop John Myers, with Archbishop Peter Gerety and Bishop David Arias Pérez, OAR, serving as co-consecrators.
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Categories:- 1953 births
- Living people
- Cuban emigrants to the United States
- People from Havana
- American Roman Catholic bishops
- Roman Catholic titular bishops
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