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David Leon Toups (born 26 March 1971) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Beaumont since 2020. He was previously rector of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida .
Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren (28 June 1933 – 25 June 2014) was a Nicaraguan judge and academic. He was rector of National Autonomous University of Nicaragua at León (UNAN-León) from 1974 to 1980 and President of the Supreme Electoral Council from 1984 to 1996, overseeing the country’s first democratic transfer of power in 1990.
On 31 October 1994, León Roldós was elected rector of the University of Guayaquil, and served two terms, which were acknowledged to have revitalized this institution. León Roldos ran for president in 1992 under the banner of the Socialist Party of Ecuador and in a second attempt in 2002 as an independent; he received then 15.4% of the vote ...
He was rector and priest of the Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá in Maracaibo (1972–1977) when he was chosen by Domingo Roa Pérez as the archdiocese's vicar general and director of the Catholic newspaper La Columna. [3] Later, in 1980, he went back to his post as priest at the Basilica [3] while still keeping these two other positions.
Although he had not completed his novitiate, he was immediately appointed vice-rector, bursar and professor of dogmatic theology of the White Fathers' major seminary, the scholasticate. On 7 April 1874 he took his oath as a missionary, and on 12 October 1874 was elected as a member of the society's General Council.
Three years later he became rector of the University, a position he held until 1928, returning to take up the position again from 1945 to 1946. In 1927 he founded the "Las Rosas" sanatorium, which now bears his name, and directed it until his death in the city of Córdoba on March 16, 1948.
Leon Lemmens (16 March 1954 – 2 June 2017) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium. Lemmens, a native of Maasmechelen , was ordained a priest on 10 July 1977. He was named an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 February 2011 and consecrated on 3 April 2011.
Leon was born in Oriente, Cuba in 1944. [1] Leon migrated to Miami, Florida in 1961. [1] [2] Leon's father founded Clinica Cuba in 1964 in order to help meet the healthcare needs of newly immigrated Cubans. [1] Leon and his father also founded Clínica Asociación Cubana (CAC), one of the first health maintenance organizations in the United ...