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About Evelio Díaz-Cía
- Evelio Diaz-Cia (February 17, 1902 in San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río, Cuba – July 21, 1984 in Havana, Cuba) was the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana. His parents were Arturo Díaz-Díaz and Francisca Cía-López.
- He was baptised at his parish church in San Cristobal on February 7, 1903 by Father Marcelino Herrero-de Dios (Registered in Box 19 of Baptisms, Folio 387, number 1260).
- He did his religious studies at the San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary. He was ordained a priest on September 12, 1926 and was named Chaplain of the Cathedral of Havana.
- On June 18, 1927, he was assigned to the Parish of Nuestra Señora de Montserrate.
- On April 2, 1940, named Chaplain to the Ursulines Sisters.
- On September 10, 1935, he was named Professor of Church History and Sociology at the San Carlos y San Ambrosio Seminary.
- He was assigned to the parish of Santo Ángel on February 15, 1939 and on April 11, 1940, Vice-Rector of the Seminary and six days after that Chaplain of the Sagrado Corazón de Tejadillo. Diaz-Cia was elevated to Bishop of Pinar del Río on December 26, 1941 by Pope Pius XII.
- He was consecrated on March 1, 1942 in the Cathedral of Pinar del Río by Mons.
- Giorgio Caruana, Titular Archbishop of Sebaste, Apostolic Nuncio of Cuba and assisted by Mons.
- Enrique Pérez-Serantes, Bishop of Camagüey and by Mons.
- Alberto Martín y Villaverde, Bishop of Matanzas.
- In 1958 he wrote the famous "Oración por la Paz" (Prayer for Peace).
- He was named Titular Bishop of Lamdia and named Auxiliary Bishop of Cardinal Manuel Arteaga-Betancourt, Archbishop of Havana and Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis on March 21, 1959.
- On that same date he was named Apostolic Administrator of Pinar del Río and remained in that position until January 16, 1960 when Mons.
- Manuel Rodriguez-Rozas was named Bishop of Pinar del Río.
- On May 31, 1959 he declared his approval of the agrarian Reforms in the magazine Bohemia without knowing how it was to be implemented.
- Promoted to Titular Archbishop of Petra di Palestina and named Coadjutor sedis datus of Havana on November 14, 1959.
- He participated in the National Catholic Congress held in Havana on November 28–29, 1959.
- He was arrested and held for a few days in April 1961 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. On August 4, 1961, Diaz-Cia was given the right of succession to the Archdiocese of Havana.
- He succeeded as Archbishop of Havana on March 21, 1963 upon the death of Cardinal Arteaga.
- On April 10, 1969 he was pressured to sign a document asking for the ending of the U.S.
- economic blockade against Cuba.
- He resigned his office of Archbishop of Havana and took the title of Titular Archbishop of Celene on January 26, 1970.
- He was succeeded by Mons.
- Francisco Ricardo Oves-Fernandez, Titular Bishop of Montecorvino and Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Cienfuegos.
- Diaz-Cia renounced his titular see and assumed the title of Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Havana on December 26, 1970. He died on July 21, 1984 in Havana.
- His funeral was held at the Cathedral of Havana and he is buried in the Colon Cemetery.
- In his funeral procession was the Pro Nuncio in Cuba, Mons.
- Giulio Einaudi and the members of the Conferencia Episcopal Cubana were present.
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