Alfredo Llaguno-Canals

Who was Alfredo Llaguno-Canals?

Alfredo Ignacio Llaguno Canals was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Havana.

His parents were Marino Llaguno and Rosario Canals. He was baptized at the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad. He started his religious studies at San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary in Havana and later went to the Colegio Pío Latino in Rome and studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received his Doctorate in Theology in 1929.

He was ordained in Rome on October 28, 1928. He returned to Cuba and had a long and varied religious career: he worked in the Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Havana, chaplain of the Asilo Truffin and Professor of History at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio in 1929; the following year, 1930, he was named administrative chaplain of San Francisco de Paula Hospital and the Parish of San Francisco de Paula and the Professor of Theology at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio. In 1932, he was named Professor of Catholic Dogma at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio. Over the years he was given more and more positions in the Archdiocese.