Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera

Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera
Archbishop of Mexico
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Mexico
In office17 December 1891 – March 1908
PredecessorPelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos
SuccessorJosé Mora y del Río
Orders
Ordination3 March 1855
Consecration7 February 1892
by Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón
Personal details
Born1827 (1827)
Lerma, State of Mexico, United Mexican States
DiedMarch 1908(1908-00-00) (aged 80–81)

Archbishop Próspero María Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera (1827–1908) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church.[1] As bishop of Mexico City, he was a leader of the Mexican Church and was inspired by Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum.[1] He viewed the entrance of the Knights of Columbus into Mexico as evidence of the revival of lay Catholicism in Mexico.[1] Alarcon was a native of Mexico and was delegated to Pontifically crown the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1895.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kauffman, Christopher J. (1982). Faith and Fraternalism: The History of the Knights of Columbus, 1882–1982. Harper and Row. p. 119-120. ISBN 978-0-06-014940-6.



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