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EspañolÁLVARO CORCUERA MARTíNEZ DEL RíO
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Father 'Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río' is a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. He has been the Director General of the Catholic Order of the Legionaries of Christ since January 2005.
★ Martinez del Rio
Alvaro Corcuera was born July 22, 1957, in Mexico City to Pablo L. Corcuera and Ana Martínez del Río. He was baptized four days later at Christ the King and St. Monica Parish.
He attended the Legion of Christ’s Cumbres Institute grammar school and was one of the founding students at the Legion’s Irish Institute prep school in Mexico City.
In 1969, Alvaro traveled to Ireland along with a few other companions to form the founding group of the Legion’s language academy now called Dublin Oak. It was during his stay in Dublin, on the same property as the Legionaries’ novitiate, that he had his first inklings of a priestly vocation.
In 1981, recalling his stay in Dublin, he wrote, “The novices’ example along with the unforgettable experience of being close to the founder [Father Marcial Maciel] and the other priests living there at the time had a decisive impact on me. The opportunity to serve the different priests’ Masses and above all just to be near the founder helped me to see with great enthusiasm the possibility of having Jesus Christ so close at hand and giving him to others the world over.”
Alvaro formed part of the founding youth group of ECYD (Education, Culture and Youth Development) which started on June 27, 1971.
He became a member of the Regnum Christi Movement on May 5, 1974. Among other activities that year, he participated in the course organized by Father Marcial Maciel in Reajo del Roble (Madrid, Spain). It was here that he first thought of becoming a consecrated layman in the Regnum Christi Movement, a step he finally took on April 13, 1975.
Six years later, reflecting on his consecration, he said, “Joining Regnum Christi made me see that total self-giving to Christ, wherever it might be, was the best gift that I could desire. Consecrated life was an experience that I could never completely assimilate because of this depth and greatness ― a great gift.”
In 1975, he began studies for a degree in educational sciences at the Legion’s Anahuac University in Mexico City, graduating in 1979.
Alvaro and other consecrated members of Regnum Christi volunteered as aides for Pope John Paul II’s first visit to Mexico in January 1979.
In September of that same year, Alvaro joined the Legionaries of Christ. A year later, asked what motivated the decision, he replied, “I discovered the principal reason in the tabernacle, where you hear Christ’s call: ‘Come, follow me’. Leave everything and surrender yourself completely.”
He did his ecclesiastical studies in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the Angelicum) and earned licentiate degrees in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
He was ordained a deacon in Rome on June 29, 1985, by Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló, then apostolic nuncio to Bolivia. On Christmas Eve that same year he was ordained a priest in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rome by Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo, then prefect of the Vatican department now called the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Father Corcuera served as rector of the Center for Higher Studies, the Legionaries’ major seminary in Rome, until his election as general director.
He was the founding rector (president) of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome, from its establishment in September 1993 until the end of the 1999-2000 school year. During that period he served as secretary of the Committee of Rectors of the Pontifical Universities of Rome. On December 7, 1999, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Anahuac University in Mexico City. On April 20, 2001, the Holy See appointed him a consulter to the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.
In January 2005, Father Alvaro Corcuera was elected general director of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement of Apostolate.
--text taken from regnumchristi.org
★ Legionaries of Christ
★ Regnum Christi Movement
★ Mission Network
Father 'Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río' is a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. He has been the Director General of the Catholic Order of the Legionaries of Christ since January 2005.
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See also
★ Martinez del Rio
Biography
Alvaro Corcuera was born July 22, 1957, in Mexico City to Pablo L. Corcuera and Ana Martínez del Río. He was baptized four days later at Christ the King and St. Monica Parish.
He attended the Legion of Christ’s Cumbres Institute grammar school and was one of the founding students at the Legion’s Irish Institute prep school in Mexico City.
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In 1969, Alvaro traveled to Ireland along with a few other companions to form the founding group of the Legion’s language academy now called Dublin Oak. It was during his stay in Dublin, on the same property as the Legionaries’ novitiate, that he had his first inklings of a priestly vocation.
In 1981, recalling his stay in Dublin, he wrote, “The novices’ example along with the unforgettable experience of being close to the founder [Father Marcial Maciel] and the other priests living there at the time had a decisive impact on me. The opportunity to serve the different priests’ Masses and above all just to be near the founder helped me to see with great enthusiasm the possibility of having Jesus Christ so close at hand and giving him to others the world over.”
Alvaro formed part of the founding youth group of ECYD (Education, Culture and Youth Development) which started on June 27, 1971.
He became a member of the Regnum Christi Movement on May 5, 1974. Among other activities that year, he participated in the course organized by Father Marcial Maciel in Reajo del Roble (Madrid, Spain). It was here that he first thought of becoming a consecrated layman in the Regnum Christi Movement, a step he finally took on April 13, 1975.
Six years later, reflecting on his consecration, he said, “Joining Regnum Christi made me see that total self-giving to Christ, wherever it might be, was the best gift that I could desire. Consecrated life was an experience that I could never completely assimilate because of this depth and greatness ― a great gift.”
In 1975, he began studies for a degree in educational sciences at the Legion’s Anahuac University in Mexico City, graduating in 1979.
Alvaro and other consecrated members of Regnum Christi volunteered as aides for Pope John Paul II’s first visit to Mexico in January 1979.
In September of that same year, Alvaro joined the Legionaries of Christ. A year later, asked what motivated the decision, he replied, “I discovered the principal reason in the tabernacle, where you hear Christ’s call: ‘Come, follow me’. Leave everything and surrender yourself completely.”
He did his ecclesiastical studies in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the Angelicum) and earned licentiate degrees in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
He was ordained a deacon in Rome on June 29, 1985, by Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló, then apostolic nuncio to Bolivia. On Christmas Eve that same year he was ordained a priest in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rome by Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo, then prefect of the Vatican department now called the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Father Corcuera served as rector of the Center for Higher Studies, the Legionaries’ major seminary in Rome, until his election as general director.
He was the founding rector (president) of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome, from its establishment in September 1993 until the end of the 1999-2000 school year. During that period he served as secretary of the Committee of Rectors of the Pontifical Universities of Rome. On December 7, 1999, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Anahuac University in Mexico City. On April 20, 2001, the Holy See appointed him a consulter to the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.
In January 2005, Father Alvaro Corcuera was elected general director of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement of Apostolate.
--text taken from regnumchristi.org
External links
★ Legionaries of Christ
★ Regnum Christi Movement
★ Mission Network
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