Background
Enrique San Pedro was born March 9, 1926 in Havana, Cuba, the second child and oldest son of María Antonia Fornaguera and Enrique San Pedro y Xiques.
Enrique San Pedro was born March 9, 1926 in Havana, Cuba, the second child and oldest son of María Antonia Fornaguera and Enrique San Pedro y Xiques.
San Pedro studied at Colegio de Belén and entered the novitiate of the Jesuits at Escuela Apostólica y Seminario Menor, en Sagua la Grande on December 7, 1941 in Cienfuegos. San Pedro also studied theology in Baguio, Philippines.
After two years of novitiate, he underwent four years of classical (Greek and Latin) studies in Havana and in Salamanca, where he received a master"s degree in classical literature. These studies were followed by three years of Philosophy at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain. He was sent to Manila to study Mandarin, Tagalog and Vietnamese.
San Pedro was ordained a priest on March 18, 1957.
He continued his studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and received his doctorate in sacred scripture from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He then went to Vietnam and taught classes at Pius X Pontifical College in Da Latin
He also worked at the Student Center of Saint Francisco Javier in Huế, Vietnam. In March 1975, he was expelled by the communists government.
French San Pedro came to the United States in the late 1970s.
On April 1, 1986, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and Titular Bishop of Siccesi and was consecrated on June 29. His principal consecrator was Mons. Joseph Anthony Fiorenza, Archbishop the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and his co-consecrators were Archbishop Edward Anthony McCarthy and Bishop Agustin Roman, both of the Archdiocese of Miami.
Bishop San Pedro was appointed on August 13, 1991 as the Coadjutor Bishop of Brownsville, Texas.
He was installed as bishop on September 26, 1991 and on November 30, 1991, he succeeded as the fourth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville. His motto is taken from II Corinthians, I2, 15: Libentissime impendam et super impendar (Most gladly I will spend myself and be spent for your sakes).
Bishop San Pedro died on July 17, 1994.