Felipe de Jesús Estévez

Felipe de Jesús Estévez (born February 5, 1946) is a Cuban-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida from 2011 to 2022.

[1] Estévez was ordained a priest by Bishop Leo Pursley for the Diocese of Matanzas in Cuba on May 30, 1970, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

[1] Returning to the United States in 1975, Estévez joined the faculty at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida, serving there until 1977.

[citation needed] The installation was attended by over 2,000 lay people, deacons, priests, and bishops from around the country and was broadcast on EWTN.

[6] Estévez initiated the first ecumenical vespers at the bishop-level in Florida on January 22, 2014, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine in St.

He attended the installation of Bishop Robert Schaefer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America near Tampa, Florida.

He collaborated with local Eastern Orthodox Christian leaders in support of the meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem on May 25, 2014.

"[11]On October 11, 2020, just before the 2020 US presidential election, Estévez asked Catholic voters to consider the church's opposition to abortion rights for women when selecting candidates.