Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
Héctor Rivera Pérez | |
Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan Titular Bishop of Thubunae in Numidia | |
Church: | Roman Catholicism |
Archdiocese: | San Juan |
Appointed: | June 11, 1979 |
Enthroned: | August 17, 1979 |
Ended: | October 31, 2009 |
Other Post: | Titular Bishop of Thubunae in Numidia |
Ordination: | June 12, 1966 |
Consecration: | August 17, 1979 |
Consecrated By: | Luis Aponte Martinez, Rafael Grovas Felix, and Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez |
Birth Name: | Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez |
Birth Date: | May 15, 1933 |
Birth Place: | Naranjito, Puerto Rico |
Death Place: | Carolina, Puerto Rico |
Buried: | La Resurrección Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico |
Héctor Rivera Pérez | |
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Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez (May 15, 1933 – April 9, 2019) was an auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
Bishop Rivera Pérez obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology in 1964 and earned a degree in social Sciences in the year 1969 in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome. Rivera Pérez was consecrated a bishop by John Paul II on August 17, 1979 and retired October 31, 2009.[1]