Priestly Society of The Holy Cross - Membership

Membership

There are around 4000 priests, bishops and deacons around the world who are members of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross.

Here are some of the prominent members of the Society:

Founder:

• Saint Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei (died 1975)

Prelates of Opus Dei:

• Álvaro del Portillo y Diez de Solano, (died 1994), Prelate of Opus Dei and Titular Bishop of Vita
• Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, Prelate of Opus Dei and Titular Bishop of Cilibia

Cardinals:

• Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, former Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
• Julián Herranz Casado, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

Bishops:

• Antonio Arregui Yarza, Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Luis Gleisner Wobbe, Titular Bishop of Mididi, Auxiliary Bishop of Rancagua, Auxiliary Bishop of La Serena, Chile
• Alfonso Delgado Evers, Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, former Bishop of Santo Tomé, former Bishop of Posadas, Argentina
• Antonio Augusto Dias Duarte, Titular Bishop of Tuscamia, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
• Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City - Saint Joseph, Missouri
• John Barres, Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania
• Ricardo García García, Prelate of Yauyos, Peru
• Ignacio González Errazúriz, Bishop of San Bernardo, Chile
• Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, Bishop of Margarita, former Bishop of La Guaira, former Auxiliary Bishop of Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
• Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea, Bishop of Chiclayo, and former Prelate of Yauyos, Peru
• José Horacio Gómez, S.T.D., Archbishop of Los Angeles, California; former Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas; and former auxiliary for the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, United States of America
• Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan, Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
• Klaus Küng, Bishop of Sankt Pölten, former Bishop of Feldkirch, Austria
• Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, Archbishop of Guayaquil, former Bishop of Quito, former Military Ordinary, former Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
• Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, Bishop of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
• Rafael Llano Cifuentes, Bishop of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, former auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
• Anthony Muheria, Bishop of Embu, Kenya
• Francisco Polti Santillan, Bishop of Santo Tome, Argentina
• Jaume Pujol Balcells, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
• Ugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi, Bishop of Santa Marta, and former Auxiliary Bishop of Barranquilla, Colombia
• Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, Archbishop of Arequipa, former Prelate of Yauyos, Peru
• Fernando Saenz Lacalle, Archbishop of San Salvador, former Apostolic Administrator of the Military of San Salvador
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Perez, Archbishop of Cuzco, former Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay, and former Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos, Peru
• Adolfo Rodríguez Vidal Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, Chile
• John J. Myers Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, United States