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Vatican City, Dec 13, 2016 \/ 09:42 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- On hearing of the Dec. 12 death<\/a><\/strong> of Bishop Javier Echevarr\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Pope Francis sent a telegram Tuesday expressing his deep sympathy to the members of the organization and to Msgr. Fernando Oc\u00e1riz Bra\u00f1a, auxiliary vicar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish to make known to you and to all members of this prelature my deepest condolences,\u201d the Pope wrote Dec. 13, \u201cat the same time that I unite to your action of giving thanks to God for his paternal and generous witness of his priestly and episcopal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop Echevarr\u00eda died in Rome Dec. 12 in the evening at the age of 84, several days after being hospitalized with pneumonia.<\/p>\n

According to a Dec. 12 statement from the personal prelature, Bishop Echevarr\u00eda was given the final sacraments that afternoon by his auxiliary, Msgr. Fernando Oc\u00e1riz.<\/p>\n

\u201cBishop Echevarr\u00eda was receiving an antibiotic to fight a lung infection,\u201d the statement added. \u201cThe clinical situation was complicated in the final hours provoking respiratory insufficiency, which resulted in his death.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his letter to Msgr. Oc\u00e1riz, Francis praised the bishop, saying that, \u201cIn the example of St. Josemaria Escriva and of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo\u2026he lived his life in constant service of love for the Church and for souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raising to the Lord \u201ca fervent prayer for this servant\u201d that God will \u201creceive him in his eternal joy,\u201d the Pope also entrusted the bishop to the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe, \u201con whose feast he entrusted his soul to God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith these sentiments, and as a sign of faith and hope in the Risen Christ, I bestow on all the comforting Apostolic blessing,\u201d the telegram concluded.<\/p>\n

Bishop Echevarr\u00eda was born in Madrid in 1932, where he met St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, an organization dedicated to spiritual growth and discipleship among the laity which teaches its members to use their work and their ordinary activities as a way to encounter God.<\/p>\n

He was St. Josemaria\u2019s secretary from 1953 to 1975, and was ordained a priest of the prelature in 1955, at the age of 23.<\/p>\n

He was later named secretary general of Opus Dei, and was elected prelate in 1994. He was consecrated a bishop the following year.<\/p>\n

Opus Dei stated that the prelature\u2019s ordinary government now falls to Msgr. Oc\u00e1riz. He is to convoke a congress of the community within three months to nominate a successor to Bishop Echevarr\u00eda, who must be confirmed by the Pope.<\/p>\n

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