Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez

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Bishop Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez
Born	March 16, 1942 (1942-03-16) (age 66) Cienfuegos, Cuba

Bishop Jorge Enrique Serpa Perez (born on March 16, 1942 in Cienfuegos, Cuba -) is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinar del Rio.

When Bishop Serpa was a child his family moved to Havana. He studied en El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana. In 1961, he went to study theology in Tournai, Belgium.

He was ordained on July 14, 1968 in Belgium and assigned to the Archdiocese of Havana. From 1968 to 1999, the Cuban government would not allow him to return to Cuba and he was then translated to the Archdiocese of Bogotá. He was allowed to return to Cuba in 1999. Once he was allowed to return to Cuba in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Rector of San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary.

He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on December 13, 2006 to be Bishop of Pinar del Rio. He was consecrated on January 13, 2007 at the Cathedral of Havana by Jaime Lucas Cardinal Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of the Diocese of Havana assisted by Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sáenz, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bogotá and by Mons. José Siro González Bacallo, Bishop Emeritus of Pinar del Río. He took possession of his Diocese the following day, January 14, 2007.