Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal (born 11 March 1944) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas from 2005 to 2022.
He studied for the priesthood in Venezuela and filled pastoral assignments there for twelve years before returning to his native Cuba, where he worked in the Diocese of Pinar del Rio until being appointed bishop.
The Catholic writer and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Havana, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal, was his brother.
He did his primary and secondary studies with the Marist Brothers at La Vibora, a suburb of Havana and then immigrated to Puerto Rico where he received a doctorate in electrical engineering.
[1] He was appointed Bishop of Matanzas on 7 May 2005[1] and received his episcopal consecration on 4 June in the cathedral in Pinar del Rio from José Siro González Bacallao, Bishop of the Pinar del Rio, assisted by Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of Havana and Pedro Meurice Estíu, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba.