Person in history
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2019 · July 26
Their story
Who they were
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the second Cuban to hold that distinction.
Why this date
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino appears on our July 26 calendar for 2019 as a death entry.
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July 26 2019.
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