Bishop Gonzalez Dies
Diocesan Press Service. January 14, 1966 [XXXIX-2]
The Rt. Rev. Romualdo Gonzalez-Agueros, 59, Missionary Bishop of Cuba since 1961, died on Jan. 9 in New Orleans. He had returned to the United States for treatment at the Oschner Foundation Hospital for cancer last October. At the time he expressed his deep gratitude to the Cuban civil authorities and to the British Embassy in Havana for expediting his departure to this country.
Bishop Gonzalez is survived by two children: his daughter, wife of Dr. Harold Mullen of New Orleans; and his son, Romualdo, a senior student at Sewanee Military Academy, Sewanee, Tennessee. His wife died in 1963.
Born in Spain, Bishop Gonzalez received his education in the United States. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Divinity School and served the Episcopal Church in Cuba for 32 years as rector of All Saints' Church, Guantanamo; and as Canon and later Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana before his election as Bishop in 1961.
The Bishop was consecrated, along with the Rt. Rev. Dillard H. Brown, Jr., of Liberia, in a rare double consecration in Washington Cathedral, Washington, D. C., conducted by then Presiding Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger on Oct. 19, 1961.
Services were held at Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans Tuesday, Jan. 11. They were conducted by the Bishop of Louisiana, the Rt. Rev. Girault E. Jones assisted by the retired Bishop of Cuba, the Rt. Rev. Alexander Hugo Blankingship. Bishop Gonzalez was buried in New Orleans.