David Arias Pérez

Spanish-born Recollect friar

His Excellency, The Most Reverend David Arias Pérez OAR
Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Newark Titular Bishop of Badiae
Archdiocese	Newark
Appointed	25 January 1983
Installed	7 April 1983
Term ended	21 May 2004
Other post(s)	Titular Bishop of Badiae
Orders
Ordination	13 May 1952
Consecration	7 April 1984 by Peter Leo Gerety, Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, and Alphonse Gallegos
Personal details
Born	(1929-07-22)22 July 1929 Mataluenga, Spain
Died	9 May 2019(2019-05-09) (aged 89) Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	Spanish
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Education	Teresianum Institute
Motto	Pascere populum suum

Styles of David Arias Pérez

Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

David Arias Pérez OAR (22 July 1929 – 9 May 2019) was a Spanish-born Recollect friar who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark from 1983 to 2004.

Biography

Born in Mataluenga, part of the municipality of Las Omañas, in the Province of Leon, Spain,^[1] Arias entered the Order of Augustinian Recollects in 1946. He began his seminary studies in 1948 in Monachil and was ordained a priest in Barcelona on 31 May 1952. He was then assigned to teach Natural Sciences briefly in a local school, before beginning advanced studies in theology at the Teresianum Institute in Rome, where he received a Diploma in 1964.

He was sent by the Order to serve in their houses in North America, first in Mexico City, then in Kansas City, Kansas. He taught ascetical theology and was a master of clerics at the seminary of the Order there.

On 25 January 1983, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Newark and was consecrated on the following 7 April. He was entrusted with the pastoral care of the growing Hispanic population of the region, representing their interests in various situations on the national level.^[2] Arias retired from this office on 21 May 2004.^[3]

In 2008, on the 25th anniversary of his consecration as bishop, his hometown of Villaviciosa de la Ribera in Leon was renamed the town square in his honor.^[4]

Bibliography

Rafael Lazcano, Episcopologio agustiniano. Agustiniana, Guadarrama (Madrid), 2014, vol. I, p. 592-596.

References

^ His ancestry is unknown but it is known that his parents are not natives of Spain, possibly from Austria escaped before WWII, somewhere around 1932.^{[citation needed]}
^ "International website of the Order of Augustinian Recollects "Bishop David Arias"". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
^ Catholic Hierarchy^{[self-published source]}
^ "Augustinian Recollects". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2012-01-14.

External links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark Official Site

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by –	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark 1983-2004	Succeeded by –

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Grade schools	St. Anne School, Fair Lawn All Saints Catholic Academy, Bayonne

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