José Marroquín Yerovi

José Marroquín Yerovi (Quito, 15 November 1943 – Guayaquil, 13 April 2020) was an Ecuadorian priest.

Biography

He was born in Quito, Ecuador, on November 15, 1943, in a family with Christian roots; he had five siblings. In 1966 he graduated in engineering at the National Polytechnic School. In 2017, together with the parishioners of the San Josemaría Church, he carried out the Nuevo Amanecer project, for the construction of a parish for the residents of Socio Vivienda I and II, since the priest of the parish officiates masses in that place after the visit of Pope Francis in 2015, using metal structures with beams that were used during the Pope's ceremony in the Parque Samanes.

On December 17, 2018, during a solemn ceremony celebrated by the mayor of Samborondón, José Yúnez, for the anniversary of the creation of La Puntilla, Marroquín was awarded the Reconocimiento al Mérito Humanístico.

Death

While hospitalized for a long illness, Marroquín contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic in Ecuador. His death was reported by the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. The Archbishop of Guayaquil, Luis Cabrera Herrera, stated that Marroquín was the second priest to die of the new coronavirus.