Caceres Consecrated Bishop of Ecuador
Diocesan Press Service. March 26, 1971 [92-8]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rev. Adrian D. Caceres was consecrated Bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Diocese of Ecuador on February 7 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is the first resident Bishop of Ecuador.
Principal consecrator was the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Co-consecrators were the Rt. Rev. Melchor Saucedo, Suffragan Bishop of Mexico, and the Rt. Rev. William Frey, Bishop of Guatemala. Participating in the consecration were 12 other bishops who came from South America, Central America and the United States.
Particularly notable was the ecumenical character of the service, with the Archbishop of Guayaquil and the Archbishop-Coadjutor of Cuenca participating, along with other Roman Catholic bishops from Peru and Chile.
Born in Sucre, Bolivia, Bishop Caceres completed advanced studies in philosophy, theology and law at the University of Cherquisaca, Bolivia.
Ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1944, he served as military chaplain, as parish rector, as professor of philosophy and as legal advisor and executive secretary of the National Council of Bishops of Bolivia. In 1959 he was received as a communicant in the Episcopal Church and was admitted to the priesthood in 1960.
He served parishes in Nicaragua and Guatemala until his election by the House of Bishops at Houston in October, 1970, to be the first Bishop of Ecuador.
Bishop Caceres will visit the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia with which the Church in Ecuador has a Companion Diocese relationship May 9-16.
Bishop Caceres was married in 1962 to Betty Garcia of Costa Rica and they have four children.
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